Transient characterization of a novel ultrawide-band antenna: the scissors antenna

Author

Andrieu, Joël ; Nouvet, Séverine ; Bertrand, Valérie ; Beillard, Bruno ; Jecko, Bernard

Author_Institution

Opt. & Microwave Commun. Res. Inst., Brive La Gaillarde, France

Volume

53

Issue

4

fYear

2005

fDate

4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1254

Lastpage

1261

Abstract

A new ultrawide-band (UWB) antenna named the "scissors antenna" has been designed specially for transient ultrawide-band applications. The scissors antenna, which is composed of conducting wires, radiates ultrashort pulses with very low dispersion. The radiation of this antenna has been characterized by a transient measurement method suitable for characterizing UWB antennas with very low dispersion. After a presentation of the scissors antenna, this measurement method is described. The last part of the paper presents a comparison between the radiation characteristics of the scissors antenna obtained by the transient measurements and those obtained by the classical harmonic measurements.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; ultra wideband antennas; wire antennas; UWB antenna; antenna radiation pattern; scissors antenna; transient characterization; ultrawide-band antenna; Adaptive optics; Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Dispersion; Horn antennas; Microwave communication; Optical distortion; Pulse measurements; Ultra wideband antennas; Wires; Transient measurements; ultrawide-band (UWB) antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2005.844520

Filename

1417203