Circularly polarised digital beam forming transmitting array for mobile satellite communications

Author

Litschke, Oliver ; Holzwarth, Sybille ; Pawlak, Holger ; Molke, Alexander ; Jacob, Arne F.

Author_Institution

IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

3988

Abstract

The paper presents a circularly polarised digital beam forming (DBF) antenna array. The array consists of 4×4 elements, and forms a building block for high gain DBF arrays for mobile satellite communications at 30 GHz. After a general introduction, the antenna element and interconnect design are discussed. Subsequently, the transmitter architecture is introduced to illustrate the complexity of the whole system. Finally, measurements of the electronically steered array are presented.

Keywords

antenna arrays; antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; array signal processing; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antenna arrays; mobile satellite communication; radio transmitters; transmitting antennas; circular polarisation; digital beam forming antenna; far field radiation patterns; mobile satellite communications; patch elements; transmitter architecture; transmitting antenna array; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Dielectric substrates; Finite difference methods; Jacobian matrices; Multimedia systems; Polarization; Satellite communication; Shape; Time domain analysis;

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.2004.1330224

Filename

1330224