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- This invention is framed in the telecommunication, radar and space technology sectors. More particularly, the invention is related to planar or curved reflector antennas called "reflectarrays" working in dual-polarisation, in which the phasing elements are arranged in order to minimise the cross-polarisation components generated by the antenna.
- a reflectarray antenna [ D. G. Berry, R. G. Malech W. A. Kennedy, 'The Reflectarray Antenna', IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagat., Vol. AP-11, 1963, pp.646-651 ] consists of a planar array of radiating elements with a certain adjustment in the phase of the reflected field to produce a collimated electromagnetic beam when it is illuminated by a primary feed ( figure 1 ).
- Printed reflectarrays use metallic patches printed on a grounded substrate to produce the required phase adjustment.
- One practical implementation of the phase adjustment in rectangular patches consists of connecting transmission line segments of different lengths to the printed elements [R. E. Munson, H. A. Haddad, J. W.
- the operating principle of the reflectarrays using variable-sized printed elements is based on the fact that the phase of the reflected wave varies with the resonant length of the elements.
- a printed patch is a resonant antenna, so that its length should be approximately half a wavelength in the dielectric. If the patch length is modified in the array, the phase of the reflected wave changes.
- the phase control by varying the resonant dimensions produces lower ohmic losses and lower cross-polarization levels than the stubs of different lengths attached to the radiating patches.
- the maximum range of phase variation that can be achieved is in the order of 330°, and the phase variation versus the length is strongly non-linear because of the narrow band behaviour of printed patches, which limits the working bandwidth in reflectarray antennas.
- the main limitation to reflectarray performance is the narrow bandwidth, generally lower than 5% and even less for large reflectarrays. Bandwidth limitation is an inherent characteristic of reflectarrays, although much effort has been made in recent years in order to improve the bandwidth.
- Double-layer structures have been also analyzed showing better performance with respect to single-layer configurations.
- Stacked metallic rings have been proposed as a reflectarray element in [ N. Misran, R. Cahill, V. Fusco, "Reflection phase response of microstrip stacked ring elements", Electronics Letters, Volume 38, Issue 8, pp. 356 - 357, April 2002 ].
- the phase of the reflected field is controlled by varying the size of the printed rings. Bandwidth is improved for the stacked ring configuration, but the results are not superior to those achievable when using stacked rectangular patches.
- Another solution to improve the bandwidth using multi-resonant dipoles in a single layer has been proposed in [J.A. Encinar, A.
- a reflectarray for dual polarization which includes other arrangement of parallel dipoles printed on the opposite side of substrate (bottom side in Figure 3 ) placed perpendicular to those on the top side and located at a certain distance from the conductive ground plane.
- the phase-shift is adjusted independently for each polarisation by varying the length of the printed dipoles on each side, resulting in a low level of coupling between polarizations, although, the residual cross-polarisation may not be compliant with the stringent cross-polarisation requirements in space antennas for Telecommunications.
- reflectarrays An important application of reflectarrays is their use as dual polarisation reflectors for frequency reuse.
- independent signals are transmitted and received in orthogonal polarisations using the same frequency bands.
- the two orthogonal polarisations can be circular, clockwise and anti clockwise, the most common case is to use two linear polarisations, designated as vertical and horizontal.
- the frequency reuse requires a very high isolation between polarisations.
- a reflectarray antenna acting as a dual polarisation reflector for frequency reuse has been patented [J. R. Profera, E.
- each dipole is made of several parallel wires close to each other, which act as single wider dipole, but reducing the coupling with the orthogonal polarisation.
- the phase curves as a function of the length are similar as those obtained for a single dipole, and consequently the bandwidth is insufficient for most commercial applications.
- the cross-polarisation is drastically reduced in this invention, but as in the case of the previous invention, the technique and the embodiments are based on reflectarray elements made of varying-sized dipoles for each polarisation, which exhibits severe limitations in bandwidth.
- Reflectarray antennas based on elements with variable rotation angles [ J. Huang, "A Ka-Band Microstrip Reflectarray with Elements Having Variable Rotation Angles", IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 650-656, May 1998 ] have been proposed to produce a focused beam in circular polarisation.
- all the reflectarray elements are identical and the rotation angle is used to adjust the phase-shift of the reflected wave when a circularly polarized field is incident; however the rotation angle does not have a direct influence on the cross-polarisation.
- This technique is only valid for circular polarisation and cannot be applied for linear or dual-linear polarisation. In addition, this concept is limited to a really narrow frequency band.
- Reflectarray antennas have been used to generate contoured beams by using one layer of varying-sized patches [ D. M. Pozar, S. D. Targonski, and R. Pokuls, "A shaped-beam microstrip patch reflectarray,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1167-1173, July 1999 ], or several layers of stacked patches to improve the bandwidth [ J. A. Encinar and J. A. Zornoza, "Three-layer printed reflectarrays for contoured beam space applications,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1138-1148, May 2004 ].
- the beam shaping to create a coverage over certain geographic zones can be obtained by a suitable design of the dimensions of the printed patches in a multi-layer configuration for Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) antennas working in dual linear polarisation [ J. A. Encinar et al. "Dual-Polarization Dual-Coverage Reflectarray for Space Applications", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propag., Vol. 54, No. 10, Pp. 2828-2837, Oct. 2006 ].
- the required bandwidth for DBS applications, around a ten percent bandwidth can be achieved by properly optimising the patch dimensions in a three-layer configuration of varying-sized patches.
- the levels of cross-polarisation are low enough in pencil beam antennas (in the order of 30 dB below the maximum), when the DBS antenna is designed to provide a wider coverage, the level of co-polar radiation is reduced to provide the same coverage level in the whole prescribed Geographical area, but the level of cross-polarization produced by the patches is not proportionally reduced. In that case, the level of cross-polarization might not be acceptable for Telecommunications antennas in space applications, where independent channels are transmitted in each linear polarization (vertical and horizontal) and a high isolation between orthogonal polarisations is required, typically 30dB.
- the reflectarray antennas proposed in the prior state of the art have several drawbacks and limitations.
- the most severe limitation in reflectarray antennas is associated to their operation in a narrow frequency band, which has been alleviated by several techniques, including stacked patches, multiple resonant cells (dipoles and rings) and optimization techniques.
- the cross-polarisation must be reduced as much as possible for dual-polarisation reflectarrays, particularly for contoured beam antennas in Space applications, where a high isolation between polarisations is required.
- Several concepts have been proposed in the last decades in order to reduce the coupling between polarisations.
- the reflectarray elements are constituted by narrow band printed dipoles, and the concepts proposed to reduce the cross-polarisation are not compatible with other broad-band reflectarray elements as staked patches or multiple resonant cells.
- the proposed reflectarray antennas exhibit a narrow band characteristic peculiar of conventional single-layer reflectarrays, not being suitable for most commercial applications.
- the invention relates to a dual-linear polarization reflectarray antenna with improved cross-polarization properties according to claim 1, 4 or 5, and to a method for obtaining said antenna according to claim 10.
- Preferred embodiments of the antenna and of the method are defined in the dependent claims.
- the dual-linear polarization reflectarray antenna comprises a reflectarray and a primary feed configured to illuminate an array of phasing cells of the reflectarray, each phasing cell comprising at least one dielectric layer and a conductive plane, each dielectric layer having at least one conductive element printed on its surface, the size of each conductive element of each phasing cell being determined to produce a previously defined radiation beam.
- the key aspect of the present invention is that each conductive element of each phasing cell is disposed in a previously calculated orientation with respect to the phasing cell so as to reduce the cross-polarization effect, wherein said orientation is dependent upon the particular phasing cell considered.
- a reflectarray coordinate system (X R ,Y R ,Z R ) can be considered, with axis Z R perpendicular to the reflectarray. It can also be considered in each phasing cell i a local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ) centred in the cell and parallel to the reflectarray coordinate system (X R ,Y R ,Z R ).
- the at least one conductive element of each dielectric layer of each phasing cell i comprises a conductive patch which symmetry axes (X Pi ,Y Pi ) form a previously calculated angle ⁇ i with respect to the corresponding axes (X Ri ,Y Ri ) of the local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ), said angle ⁇ i being dependent upon the particular phasing cell i considered.
- the conductive patches of the reflectarray can have any of the following shapes: rectangular-shaped, square-shaped, cross-shaped, elliptical-shaped, polygonal-shaped.
- the angle ⁇ i can be selected such that the propagation direction of the incident field coming from the feed to said phasing cell i is contained in a symmetry plane of the conductive patch of each dielectric layer of the phasing cell i .
- the at least one conductive element of each dielectric layer of each phasing cell i comprises a first set of parallel conductive dipoles printed on a side of the dielectric layer and a second set of parallel conductive dipoles printed on the opposite side of the dielectric layer, the phasing cell i comprising at least one further dielectric layer to separate the at least one dielectric layer from the conductive plane.
- the first set of parallel conductive dipoles are oriented such that its associated axis Y Di , parallel to said first set of dipoles, forms a previously calculated angle ⁇ yi with respect to the corresponding axis (Y Ri ) of the local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ), and the second set of parallel conductive dipoles is oriented such that its associated axis (X Di ), parallel to said second set of dipoles, forms a previously calculated angle ⁇ xi with respect to the corresponding axis (X Ri ) of the local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ), said angles ⁇ yi and ⁇ xi being dependent upon the particular phasing cell i considered.
- each phasing cell i comprises at least one pair of dielectric layers with a first set of parallel conductive dipoles printed on a side of one dielectric layer and a second set of parallel conductive dipoles printed on the other dielectric layer.
- the first set of parallel conductive dipoles is oriented such that its associated axis Y Di , parallel to said first set of dipoles, forms a previously calculated angle ⁇ yi with respect to the corresponding axis (Y Ri ) of the local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ), and the second set of parallel conductive dipoles is oriented such that its associated axis X Di , parallel to said second set of dipoles, forms a previously calculated angle ⁇ xi with respect to the corresponding axis (X Ri ) of the local coordinate system (X Ri ,Y Ri ,Z Ri ), said angles ⁇ yi and ⁇ xi being dependent upon the particular phasing cell i considered.
- the angle ⁇ yi can be selected, for each phasing cell, such that the axis Y Di defining the direction of the first set of conductive dipoles is contained in the plane of incidence of the field coming from the feed to the said phasing cell i
- the angle ⁇ xi can be selected such that the axis X Di defining the direction of the second set of conductive dipoles is perpendicular to the plane of incidence of the field coming from the feed to the said phasing cell i .
- each conductive element of each phasing cell i can be selected such that there is a phase-shift of 180 degrees between the two components of the reflected electric field parallel to the axes associated to the conductive elements (X Pi ,Y Pi ;X Di ,Y Di ), being the orientation of each conductive element of each phasing cell i such that the total cross-polarization produced by both geometrical projections and coupling in the phasing cell is minimised in a prefixed frequency band and for the two linear polarizations.
- the phasing cells can be arranged, in all cases, in any of the following dispositions: a rectangular lattice, a square lattice, a triangular lattice, an hexagonal lattice, non-periodic array, sparse arrangement.
- each conductive element of those phasing cells where the angle of incidence ⁇ i of the field coming from the feed with respect to the axis Z R is lower than a predetermined threshold angle ⁇ t can be selected such that the axes associated to the corresponding conductive element (X Pi ,Y Pi ;X Di ,Y Di ) are parallel to the corresponding axes (X R ,Y R ) of the reflectarray coordinate system (X R ,Y R ,Z R ).
- a method for obtaining a dual-linear polarization reflectarray antenna with improved cross-polarization properties comprises:
- each conductive element of each phasing cell can be calculated such that the propagation direction of the incident field coming from the feed to the said phasing cell i is contained in a symmetry plane of said conductive element.
- the step of calculating the orientation of each conductive element comprises minimising, by using an optimisation routine, the total cross-polarization produced by both geometrical projections and coupling in the phasing cell, in a prefixed frequency band and for the two linear polarizations.
- the step of calculating the orientation of each conductive element comprises:
- the method can further comprise:
- a reflectarray antenna comprising a plurality of broad-band phasing elements made of one or several layers of varying-sized conductive patches or dipoles printed on a dielectric substrate over a conductive ground plane is proposed, in which the printed patches are individually rotated in order to reduce the cross-polarisation.
- Figure 1 shows a perspective of a reflectarray (1) illuminated by a feed (2).
- an adjustment is introduced in the phase of the reflected field so that the divergent field coming from the feed (2) is reflected as a collimated or a shaped beam in a given direction (4).
- reflectarray antennas can be designed to be compliant with most of the requirements for communications satellites, being the most critical ones the bandwidth and the low cross-polarisation levels required for dual-polarisation antennas. Although reflectarrays produce low cross-polarization, this might not be sufficient to remain compliant with the specifications of Telecommunication missions in dual linear polarization.
- the cross-polarization is produced by two different phenomena: the first one is the generation of the orthogonal component of the field on the reflectarray surface produced by the field projections when illuminated by a linear-polarised feed, and the second one is the coupling of polarisations produced at the conductive patches.
- the second factor is the most significant in a reflectarray and increases when the patches are near the resonance. In a reflectarray antenna the angle of incidence at each element varies with the element position on the array, and so the level of cross polarisation produced by both phenomena, coupling and field projections.
- the cross polarisation levels are only significant in those areas of the reflectarray where the angles of incidence ( ⁇ i , ⁇ i ) are far away from the principal planes and predominantly for large values of ⁇ i , therefore the reduction of the cross-polarisation is particularly necessary in those zones.
- Figure 2 shows a lateral and front views of a reflectarray cell of dimensions p x by p y with two stacked conductive patches, where the phase of the reflected field is adjusted by varying the patch dimensions.
- the reflectarray element consists of a first rectangular conductive patch (5) of dimensions a 1 xb 1 , a dielectric layer (6) of thickness t 1 , a second rectangular conductive patch (7) of dimensions a 2 xb 2 , a second dielectric layer (8) of thickness t 2 , and a conductive plane (9).
- Figure 3 depicts a perspective of a reflectarray cell comprising three parallel conductive dipoles (10, 11 and 12) printed on the top side of a dielectric layer (13) and three conductive dipoles (14, 15 and 16) perpendicular to the first ones, printed on the bottom side of the dielectric layer (13), separated from a conductive plane (17) by another dielectric layer (18), where the phase of the reflected field for each linear polarization is controlled independently by varying the lengths of the dipoles printed on each side of the top dielectric layer (13).
- a reflectarray comprising a plurality of broad-band phasing elements, which are made of one or several layers of varying-sized conductive patches ( Fig. 2 ) or dipoles ( Fig. 3 ) printed on dielectric layers above a conductive plane, has been designed to generate or to receive the same beam in the two orthogonal polarisations, a small rotation of the patches will practically no alter the co-polar radiation patterns, but it will modify significantly the cross-polar patterns. Then, the patches on the reflectarray can be individually rotated at each cell to minimise the cross-polarisation produced at each reflectarray cell.
- the local periodicity approach can be used, i.e.
- each phasing element i is assumed located in a periodic planar array with all the elements rotated by the same angle ⁇ i (specified in Fig. 6 ) with respect to the reflectarray coordinate system (X R Y R ).
- the co- and cross-polar components of the reflected field are computed independently at each cell assuming local periodicity and from them, the co- and cross-polar radiation patterns of the reflectarray antenna are computed.
- a first principal object of this invention is a reflectarray antenna formed by a planar array of phasing cells arranged in a rectangular lattice, where each cell is made of one or several layers of varying-sized patches or dipoles printed on dielectric layers placed above a conductive plane, which are designed by adjusting their dimensions to produce the phase-shift in the reflected field required to collimate or to shape the beam in dual-linear polarisation (vertical and horizontal) in a given frequency band, when illuminated by a feed (2) located at a focal point (in transmit mode); or to receive radio-frequency signals from a given direction in dual-linear polarisation and in the same frequency band, by concentrating them at the focal point where the feed is located; where the patches are individually rotated at each cell with respect to the rectangular lattice in order to minimise the cross-polarisation produced at each reflectarray cell.
- the phasing cells in the reflectarray antenna can be arranged not only in a rectangular lattice, but also in different types of lattices, such as square, triangular, hexagonal or following a different type of pattern, including non regular arrangements of the elements. Triangular lattices can be used to achieve a more dense distribution of the elements in the array, or to interleave reflectarray elements for different frequency or different polarisation. On the other side, non-regular lattices, such as sparse or non-periodic arrays can be used to reduce the total number of elements in the reflectarray, which is particularly important when the phasing elements include switches or other control devices.
- each element of the reflectarray consists of several stacked layers of conductive patches (5,7) separated by dielectric sheets (6,8) with an angle of rotation ⁇ i respect the rectangular lattice, all of them placed above a conductive ground plane (9), considering in each layer squared or rectangular patches, or conductive patches with other geometric shapes that allow independent adjustment in two dimensions to control the phase of the reflected field for the two orthogonal polarisations of the incident field, such as cross-shaped metallisations, where the phase for each polarisation is controlled with the length of each arm of the crosses.
- the symmetry axes of the stacked patches in the element i are rotated ⁇ i degrees with respect to the local coordinate axes X Ri Y Ri which are parallel to the reflectarray coordinate axes X R Y R .
- the conductive patches can be printed on a thin dielectric layer, which are bonded to the dielectric separators (6,8) by a bonding film, so that the number of dielectric layers between the conductive ground plane (9) and the conductive patches (7), or between stacked conductive patches (5,7), can be increased for structural concerns or for technological reasons in the manufacturing process.
- the use of several layers with printed patches (two, three or even more) allows phase curves as a function of the patch size to be less sensitive to frequency variations, which produces an increase in bandwidth.
- the dimensions of the stacked patches can be optimised to provide the required beam shaping in the whole working band and the angles of rotation will be adjusted to minimise the cross-polarisation, in order be compliant with the stringent requirements in bandwidth and cross-polarisation.
- each reflectarray cell comprises several parallel conductive dipoles of different length in the same plane, typically two or three dipoles (10,11,12), printed on the same side of a first dielectric layer (13) forming an angle ⁇ yi with respect to the local coordinate axis Y Ri in the i reflectarray cell for phase control in one polarisation, and a set of two or three conductive dipoles (14, 15, 16) printed on the opposite side of the dielectric layer (13) forming an angle ⁇ xi with respect to the local coordinate axis X Ri in the i reflectarray cell for the phase control in the orthogonal polarisation, where the lengths of the dipoles in each cell are adjusted to produce the required collimated or shaped beam in dual-linear polarisation in a given frequency band, and the angles of rotation are adjusted on each cell to minimise the cross-polarisation, being the angle of rotation identical for all the parallel dipoles in the same cell.
- the dipoles are
- Another embodiment of the present invention is to use reflectarray cells with two or more stacked layers of parallel dipoles to adjust the phase in one polarisation (vertical) and two or more stacked layers of parallel dipoles in the orthogonal polarisation (horizontal), including several dielectric layers between the conductive ground plane and the conductive dipoles, or between adjacent layers with parallel dipoles, where the dipoles for each polarisation are rotated to minimise the cross-polarisation.
- This configuration with several stacked layers of parallel dipoles for each polarisation allows designing reflectarray antennas for dual or multiple frequency operation, where the phase is adjusted at several frequency bands by varying the dimensions of the parallel dipoles in the different stacked layers.
- This configuration can also be used for the design of an antenna in the frequency bands assigned for transmission and reception, or to achieve a larger bandwidth.
- a systematic procedure is proposed to adjust the angle of rotation in each reflectarray cell.
- the resulting array layout for the first layer of varying-sized patches is depictured in figure 4 .
- Figure 5 shows the co-polar (in continuous line) and cross-polar (in broken line) radiation patterns in a plane tilted by 20 degrees with respect to the coordinate plane Y R Z R (for the reflectarray previously described) for the linear polarization with the electric field contained on the X R Z R plane. Since the cross-polarisation is increased for larger angles of incidence, the first step is to identify the reflectarray elements in which the angle of incidence ( ⁇ i in Fig. 1 ) is higher than a prefixed threshold angle ⁇ t , in order to introduce the appropriate rotation in those elements. Then, the rotation angle for the patches in the reflectarray elements illuminated under an angle of incidence ( ⁇ i in Fig.
- the threshold angle ⁇ t is defined to rotate those elements that mostly contribute to the cross-polarisation.
- Figure 8 represents a perspective of a reflectarray (1) made of varying-sized patches illuminated by a feed (2), in which the printed patches are rotated in each phasing cell (3) in order to reduce the cross-polarisation.
- a method based on the rotation of patches for improving the cross-polarisation properties in a reflectarray antenna comprising a plurality of elements made of one or more layers of varying-sized conductive rectangular patches or dipoles, that has been designed by adjusting the dimensions of the conductive patches by a technique known in previous state of the art in order to generate or receive a collimated or a shaped beam in a prefixed frequency band for dual linear polarisation, being the method defined by the following steps: first, the cross polarisation produced on the reflectarray elements is computed; second, a threshold ⁇ t is defined for the angle of incidence so that those elements where the angle of the incidence with respect to Z R axis is lower than the threshold produce a cross-polarisation lower than a certain level for the two orthogonal polarisations said vertical and horizontal; and third, for those elements where the angle of incidence is higher than the prefixed threshold angle ⁇ t , the rotation angle ⁇ i of the printed conductive
- Another object of the present invention is a method for improving the cross-polarisation properties in a reflectarray antenna wherein the rotation angle of the patches or dipoles in each cell is obtained by an optimisation routine to minimize in a prefixed frequency band the total cross-polarization, produced by geometrical projections and patch coupling, for the two linear polarisations (vertical and horizontal), in such a way that the cross-polarisation introduced by the patch coupling should partially compensate the component produced by the geometrical projections. Since the component of cross-polarisation produced by the geometry projections is more significant in one polarisation (the one with electric field in Y R direction), the rotation must be optimised to minimise, in the defined frequency band, the overall cross-polarisation for the two linear polarisations.
- Another method to improve the cross-polarisation of the reflectarray is based on the fact that the cross-polarisation radiation, including both contributions from patch coupling and field projections, represents an undesired rotation of the radiated electric field by an angle y, and this effect can be reduced by a small rotation of the electric-field vector reflected on the reflectarray, by applying the technique schematically depicted in Figure 11 and explained hereafter.
- the incident electric field can be broken-down into two components parallel to the patch sides; if the reflectarray cells are designed so that the phase of the reflected field in one of the components (Y Pi ) is increased by 180 degrees with respect to the phase of the reflected electric field in the other component (X Pi ), which means a change of sign in this field component, the resulting reflected electric field will be rotated by an angle equal to 2 ⁇ with respect the incident field.
- Each patch can be rotated so that the reflected electric field is parallel to one of the axes of the reflectarray coordinate system X R Y R , in order to cancel the total cross-polarisation. Note that the same angle will be rotated for the field of the two polarisations (vertical and horizontal).
- the use of this technique is proposed in the present invention to rotate the reflected field at each reflectarray cell in order to minimise the cross-polarisation in both linear polarisations. Since the rotation angles required to completely cancel the cross-polarisation in general will not be the same for the two linear polarisations, the rotation angle will be determined by using an optimisation routine in order to minimise simultaneously the cross-polarisation in both linear polarisations for the required frequency band.
- Another object of the present invention is a method for improving the cross-polarisation of a reflectarray made of one or several layers of varying-sized patches or dipoles designed to produce or to receive a focused or a contoured beam in a prefixed frequency band for both orthogonal lineal polarisations (vertical and horizontal), where the dimensions of patches in the reflectarray elements have been optimised to produced a phase-shift of 180 degrees between the two orthogonal components of the reflected electric field parallel to the patch sides in order to produce a rotation of the reflected electric field ( Fig. 11 ), and where the rotation angle of the patches in each cell is optimised to minimise the total cross-polarisation for both linear polarisations (vertical and horizontal) in a prefixed frequency band.
- the cross-polarization produced by the patches will partially compensate the cross-polarization produced by the projection of the field radiated by the feed.
- the patch arrays are manufactured by conventional photo-etching techniques and the different layers of conductive patches, ground plane and dielectric layers can be bonded by well known curing processes used for sandwich manufacturing using composite materials and honeycomb cores. These processes are not affected by the patch orientations.
- Another object of this invention consists of its application for antennas in Telecom satellites, where the dimensions and rotation of the patches are optimised to radiate, receive or radiate and receive a collimated or a contoured beam providing the same coverage in dual linear polarisation (vertical and horizontal).
- a shaped reflector such as those used in satellites for direct broadcast television, consists of a reflector with deformities on its surface, so that the radiation pattern illuminates a certain geographical area.
- the design and construction of shaped reflectors is carried out specifically for each coverage, requiring moulds, which are very expensive to manufacture and cannot be reused for other antennas.
- the proposed reflectarray antenna and its design process for cross-polarisation improvement can be used to design Telecom satellite antennas with the same electrical performances as those provided by shaped reflectors, providing a significant reduction in the production costs and time because of the elimination of the custom moulds.
- the technology and the materials to be used in the realisation of the reflectarray antenna are chosen.
- 3-mm thick Quartz honeycomb has been chosen for the dielectric separators (6,8) between the layers with printed conductive patches, which has a relative dielectric constant of 1.06 and a loss tangent of 10 -3 .
- the arrays of rectangular metallic patches are generated by photo-etching from a 50-micron thick Kapton (trademark for a poly(4,4'-oxydiphenylene-pyromellitimide material) film with an 18 micron copper cladding.
- the Kapton has a relative dielectric constant of 3.5 and a loss tangent of 3x10 -3 .
- the conductive patches printed on the Kapton layers are bonded to the honeycomb using a 76-micron thick quartz-fibre fabric pre-impregnated with resin, with relative dielectric constant of 3.2 and a loss tangent of 4x 10 -3 .
- the last honeycomb layer is bonded to the conductive ground plane by another quartz-fibre layer.
- the periodic cell is shown in figure 5 for the case of two layers of rectangular patches, where the thin layers of Kapton and quartz have not been shown.
- a reflectarray antenna is designed to produce or receive a collimated or a shaped beam with the same beam shaping in the two orthogonal polarisations, said vertical and horizontal.
- the feed-horn produces an illumination on the reflectarray edges 9dB below the illumination level at the reflectarray centre.
- the phase distribution of the reflected field required to produce the defined collimated beam for both linear polarisations is obtained.
- the required phase distribution on the reflectarray in one polarisation is increased 180 degrees with respect the phase of the other polarisation.
- the patch dimensions are adjusted to obtain the previous phase distributions for each linear polarisation, said vertical and horizontal.
- a zero finding routine that calls iteratively an analysis routine is used.
- the phase of the reflected field is computed for each polarisation in every cell assuming local periodicity, i.e. analysing each element with its dimensions in a periodic environment.
- the routine calls the analysis program and adjusts the dimensions of each element until the required phase is obtained for each polarisation. Note that the phase in one polarisation is increased 180 degrees with respect to the other one.
- the rotation angle at each reflectarray element is determined by using an optimisation routine.
- the optimisation routine can be based on a gradient technique that provides the rotation angle at each element that minimises an error function, which accounts for the levels of cross-polarisation at the element for both linear polarisations and at several frequencies in the defined frequency band.
- the reflectarray is manufactured.
- the photo-etching masks for each reflectarray layer are generated from the file with the dimensions of the patches and the angles of rotation for each element obtained in the design stage.
- the traditional photo-etching techniques used in the production of printed circuits can be used and the different layers are bonded by using conventional curing processes.
- This invention can be applied to reflector antennas in satellite communications, with significant advantages compared to conventional parabolic or shaped reflectors, or other reflectarray antennas available in the prior state of the art.
- the present invention allows to fulfil the stringent requirements in bandwidth and cross-polarisation for dual-polarisation antennas in Direct Broadcast and Telecommunications Satellites, keeping the advantages of a flat panel and the simplicity of manufacturing.
- the planar characteristic Because of the planar characteristic, it can be built in several pieces to be folded and later deployed, being of great use in applications in which large reflectors are required.
- the reflector surface can be fitted to existing structures, such as structural planes in communication satellites. It can be used as a dual polarisation reflector with an isolation level between polarisations better than those obtained with conventional reflectors.
- the present invention can be built using space qualified materials and a technology already developed in space applications for the manufacture of dichroic subreflectors. Therefore, this type of reflectarray with rotated patches is very suitable for a significant range of applications in the space industry as an alternative to the different types of onboard shaped reflectors in satellites, such as carbon fibre reflectors, dual-gridded reflectors or metallic mesh reflectors.
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- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire avec des propriétés de polarisation croisée améliorées, comprenant un réseau de réflexion (1) et une alimentation principale (2) configurés pour illuminer un réseau de cellules de mise en phase (3) du réseau de réflexion (1), dans laquelle un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) est considéré, l'axe ZR étant perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1), chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) comprenant au moins une couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) et un plan conducteur (9, 17), chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) ayant au moins un élément conducteur (5, 7 ; 10, 11, 12 ; 14, 15, 16) imprimé sur sa surface, la taille de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) étant déterminée pour produire un faisceau de rayonnement précédemment défini, dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) étant également considéré un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZR1) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR), caractérisé en ce que au moins un élément conducteur de chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8) de chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) comprend une plaque conductrice (5, 7) dont les axes de symétrie (XPi, YPi) forment un angle précédemment calculé αi par rapport aux axes correspondants (XR1, YR1) du système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi), ledit angle αi étant dépendant de la cellule de mise en phase particulière (3) considérée.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle les plaques conductrices (5, 7) du réseau de réflexion (1) ont l'une quelconque des formes suivantes : forme rectangulaire, forme carrée, forme de croix, forme elliptique, forme polygonale.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 et 2, dans laquelle, pour chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3), l'angle αi est sélectionné de manière que la direction de propagation du champ incident arrivant de l'alimentation (2) vers ladite cellule de mise en phase i (3) soit contenue dans un plan de symétrie de la plaque conductrice (5, 7) de chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8) de la cellule de mise en phase i (3).
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire avec des propriétés de polarisation croisée améliorées, comprenant un réseau de réflexion (1) et une alimentation principale (2) configurée pour illuminer un réseau de cellules de mise en phase (3) du réseau de réflexion (1), dans lequel un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) est considéré, l'axe ZR étant perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1), chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) comprenant au moins une couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) et un plan conducteur (9, 17), chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) ayant au moins un élément conducteur (5, 7 ; 10, 11, 12 ; 14, 15, 16) imprimé sur sa surface, la taille de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) étant déterminée pour produire un faisceau de rayonnement précédemment défini, dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) étant également considéré un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR), caractérisé en ce que au moins un élément conducteur de chaque couche diélectrique (13) de chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) comprend un premier ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (10, 11, 12) imprimés sur un côté de la couche diélectrique (13) et un deuxième ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (14, 15, 16) imprimés sur le côté opposé de la couche diélectrique (13), la cellule de mise en phase i (3) comprenant au moins une autre couche diélectrique (18) pour séparer au moins une couche diélectrique (13) du plan conducteur (17), et dans laquelle le premier ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (10, 11, 12) est orienté de manière que son axe associé YDi, parallèle audit premier ensemble de dipôles (10, 11, 12), forme un angle précédemment calculé αyi par rapport à l'axe correspondant (YRi) du système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi), et le deuxième ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (14, 15, 16) est orienté de manière que son axe associé (XDi), parallèle audit deuxième ensemble de dipôles (14, 15, 16), forme un angle précédemment calculé αxi par rapport à l'axe correspondant (XR1) du système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi), lesdits angles αxi et αyi étant dépendants de la cellule de mise en phase particulière (3) considérée.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire avec des propriétés de polarisation croisée améliorées, comprenant un réseau de réflexion (1) et une alimentation principale (2) configurée pour illuminer un réseau de cellules de mise en phase (3) du réseau de réflexion (1), dans lequel un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) est considéré, l'axe ZR étant perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1), chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) comprenant au moins une couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) et un plan conducteur (9, 17), chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) ayant au moins un élément conducteur (5, 7 ; 10, 11, 12 ; 14, 15, 16) imprimé sur sa surface, la taille de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) étant déterminée pour produire un faisceau de rayonnement précédemment défini, dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) étant également considéré un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZR1) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR), caractérisé en ce que chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) comprend au moins une paire de couches diélectriques (19, 20) avec un premier ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (10, 11, 12) imprimés sur un côté d'une couche diélectrique (19) et un deuxième ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (14, 15, 16) imprimés sur l'autre couche diélectrique (20), et dans laquelle le premier ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (10, 11, 12) est orienté de manière que son axe associé YDi, parallèle audit premier ensemble de dipôles (10, 11, 12), forme un angle précédemment calculé αyi par rapport à l'axe correspondant (YRi) du système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi), et le deuxième ensemble de dipôles conducteurs parallèles (14, 15, 16) est orienté de manière que son axe associé (XDi), parallèle audit deuxième ensemble de dipôles (14, 15, 16), forme un angle précédemment calculé αxi par rapport à l'axe correspondant (XR1) du système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZRi), lesdits angles αxi et αyi étant dépendants de la cellule de mise en phase particulière (3) considérée.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications 4 et 5, dans laquelle, pour chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3), l'angle αyi est sélectionné de manière que l'axe YDi définissant la direction du premier ensemble de dipôles conducteurs (10, 11, 12) soit contenu dans le plan d'incidence du champ arrivant de l'alimentation (2) vers ladite cellule de mise en phase i (3) et l'angle αxi est sélectionné de manière que l'axe XDi définissant la direction du deuxième ensemble de dipôles conducteurs (14, 15, 16) soit perpendiculaire au plan d'incidence du champ arrivant de l'alimentation (2) vers ladite cellule de mise en phase i (3).
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 et 2, 4 et 5, dans laquelle les dimensions de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) sont sélectionnées de manière qu'il existe un déphasage de 180 degrés entre les deux composantes du champ électrique réfléchi parallèle aux axes associés aux éléments conducteurs (XPi, YPi ; XDi, YDi) et dans laquelle l'orientation de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) est telle que la polarisation croisée totale produite à la fois par les projections géométriques et le couplage dans la cellule de mise en phase soit minimisée dans une bande de fréquences préétablie et pour les deux polarisations linéaires.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle les cellules de mise en phase (3) sont agencées dans l'une quelconque des dispositions suivantes : un réseau rectangulaire, un réseau carré, un réseau triangulaire, un réseau hexagonal, un réseau non périodique, une disposition dispersée.
- Antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) est considéré, l'axe ZR étant perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1), étant également considéré dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZR1) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR), dans laquelle l'orientation de chaque élément conducteur de ces cellules de mise en phase (3) où l'angle d'incidence (θi) du champ arrivant de l'alimentation (2) par rapport à l'axe ZR est inférieur à un angle de seuil prédéterminé θt est sélectionnée de manière que les axes associés à l'élément conducteur correspondant (XPi, YPi ; XDi, YDi) soient parallèles aux axes correspondants (XR, YR) du système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR).
- Procédé pour obtenir une antenne à réseau de réflexion à double polarisation linéaire avec des propriétés de polarisation croisée améliorées selon les revendications 1 à 9, le procédé comprenant :la fourniture d'un réseau de réflexion (1) et d'une alimentation principale (2) configurés pour illuminer un réseau de cellules de mise en phase (3) du réseau de réflexion (1), chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) comprenant au moins une couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) et un plan conducteur (9, 17), chaque couche diélectrique (6, 8 ; 13 ; 19, 20) ayant au moins un élément conducteur (5, 7 ; 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16) imprimé sur sa surface, la taille de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) étant déterminée pour produire un faisceau précédemment défini, caractérisé en ce que le procédé comprend en outre :le calcul, pour chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3), d'une orientation par rapport à la cellule de mise en phase (3) de manière à réduire l'effet de polarisation croisée, ladite orientation étant dépendante de la cellule de mise en phase particulière (3) considérée, ledit calcul comprenant la minimisation, en utilisant une routine d'optimisation, de la polarisation croisée totale produite à la fois par les projections géométriques et le couplage dans la cellule de mise en phase, dans une bande de fréquences préétablie et pour les deux polarisations linéaires ;la disposition de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) dans l'orientation précédemment calculée.
- Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel l'orientation de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) est calculée de manière que la direction de propagation du champ incident arrivant de l'alimentation (2) vers ladite cellule de mise en phase i (3) soit contenue dans un plan de symétrie dudit élément conducteur.
- Procédé selon la revendication 10, un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) étant considéré, avec l'axe ZR perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1) ; étant également considéré dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZR1) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) ; dans lequel l'étape de calcul de l'orientation de chaque élément conducteur comprend :le calcul de dimensions de chaque élément conducteur de chaque cellule de mise en phase (3) de manière qu'il existe un déphasage de 180 degrés entre les deux composantes du champ électrique réfléchi parallèle aux axes associés aux éléments conducteurs (XPi, YPi ; XDi, YDi).
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 10 à 12, dans lequel un système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR) est considéré, l'axe ZR étant perpendiculaire au réseau de réflexion (1), étant également considéré dans chaque cellule de mise en phase i (3) un système de coordonnées local (XRi, YRi, ZR1) centré dans la cellule et parallèle au système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR), caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend en outre :la définition d'un angle de seuil θt, tel que la polarisation croisée, produite par ces cellules de mise en phase (3) où l'angle de l'incidence par rapport à l'axe ZR est inférieur à l'angle de seuil θt, soit inférieure à un niveau préétabli pour les deux polarisations orthogonales ;la disposition de chaque élément conducteur dans ces cellules de mise en phase (3) où l'angle d'incidence (θi) du champ arrivant de l'alimentation (2) par rapport à l'axe ZR est inférieur audit angle de seuil θt de manière que les axes associés à l'élément conducteur correspondant (XPi, YPi ; XDi, YDi) soient parallèles aux axes correspondants (XR, YR) du système de coordonnées de réseau de réflexion (XR, YR, ZR).
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