Beam Synthesis of a C-Band Circularly Polarized Dual-Reflector Antenna Using a Reconfigurable Subreflector

Autor: Marzieh Mehri Dehnavi, Jean-Jaques. Laurin
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS).
DOI: 10.23919/ursigass51995.2021.9560316
Popis: In this work, the phase-only synthesis technique is used for beam shaping of a C-Band circularly polarized dual-reflector antenna. The synthesis relies on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by using the element factors of a 100-elements reflectarray. The optimized results suffer from discontinuities in the reflectarray phase distribution, leading to degradation of the far-field patterns. This work proposes a solution to force a continuous phase distribution among the reflectarray surface during the optimization process. The beam scanning capability of the proposed algorithm is investigated by scanning the beam in the uv plane, by −0.05 and −0.1 along the main axes, and by 0.07 along a 45-degree diagonal. It is shown that the phase smoothing condition leads to significant improvement in the quality of the synthesized beams.
Databáze: OpenAIRE