UWB front-end for SAR-based imaging system

Author

Monni, S. ; Grooters, R. ; Neto, A. ; Nennie, F.A.

Author_Institution

TNO Defense Security & Safety, The Hague, Netherlands

fYear

2010

fDate

27-28 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

152

Abstract

A planarly fed UWB leaky lens antenna is presented integrated with wide band transmit and receive front-end electronics, to be used in a SAR-based imaging system. The unique non-dispersive characteristics of this antenna over a very wide bandwidth, together with the dual band front-end electronics based on `off the shelf´ components and integrated using standard PCB technology makes them very attractive as transmit-receive element for a MIMO array configuration. Design and measurement results of the leaky lens antenna characteristics are presented, and design considerations for the integrated mm-Wave electronics are discussed.

Keywords

antenna feeds; leaky wave antennas; lens antennas; millimetre wave antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; ultra wideband antennas; MIMO array; SAR-based imaging system; UWB leaky lens antenna; antenna feed; dualband front-end electronics; integrated millimetre wave electronics; ultra wideband antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Imaging; Lenses; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology Conference (EuWIT), 2010 European

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

2153-3644

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7233-8

Type

conf

Filename

5615108