A Grating-Based Circular Polarization Duplexer for Submillimeter-Wave Transceivers

作者:Cooper Ken B*; Llombart Nuria; Chattopadhyay Goutam; Dengler Bob; Cofield Richard E; Lee Choonsup; Filchenkov Sergey; Koposova Elena
来源:IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2012, 22(3): 108-110.
DOI:10.1109/LMWC.2012.2184273

摘要

A quasioptical duplexer based on a metallic grating polarizer has been designed and demonstrated in a submillimeter-wave imaging radar system. The grating converts between linear and circular polarization with low loss and high isolation, and it is simple to manufacture by cutting grooves into a scanning sub-reflector. The grating profile and period were optimized to provide good polarizing efficiency over the radar%26apos;s 4.5% bandwidth of 660-690 GHz, with two-way mismatch loss simulated to be better than 0.1 dB over an 8% bandwidth. Similarly negligible loss is also predicted for grating rotations of +/-3 degrees, which span the radar%26apos;s field of view. The circular polarization grating duplexer is shown to improve the signal-to-noise ratio by 4.5 dB compared to a beam splitter.

  • 出版日期2012-3