MM-wave wide-scan cylindrical dielectric lens antennas

Author

Wu, Xidong ; Laurin, Jean-Jacques

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

1387

Abstract

The wide angle scanning antenna is essential for many mm-wave applications such as broadband wireless communications, automobile radars and imaging radars. An excellent design is given in Schoenlinner et al. (2002) using a simple spherical lens antenna to launch 33 pencil-beams to achieve 180° scan coverage. This paper extends this design concept to launch scanning fan-beams by using cylindrical lens between two parallel conductor plates. The measurement agrees very well with the simulations, and a gain of 16.5 dB with E- and H-plane beamwidth of 6.0° and 60° is achieved at 30 GHz. The designed antenna can be easily extended to 94 GHz, and is well suited for either single or scanning fan-beam applications, such as aircraft landing systems.

Keywords

aircraft antennas; antenna radiation patterns; lens antennas; microwave landing systems; millimetre wave antennas; scanning antennas; 16.5 dB; 30 GHz; 94 GHz; aircraft landing systems; cylindrical dielectric lens antennas; mm-wave antennas; parallel conductor plates; scanning fan-beams; wide angle scanning antenna; Automobiles; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Dielectrics; Lenses; Optical design; Radar antennas; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8302-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2004.1330445

Filename

1330445