Monopulse tracking performance of multi-port Eleven antenna for use in terminals for satellite communications
Paper in proceeding, 2007
The paper describes the design of a laboratory model of the multiport Eleven antenna and explains how the sum and difference patterns are generated in this model. Its tracking performance is investigated through both simulation and measurement. This paper also introduces a practical method for determining the scattering parameters of an antenna with multiple ports, when it is excited for both sum and difference beams, without using a feeding network with sum and difference ports. The monopulse tracking capability may open up interesting opportunities for using the Eleven antenna in satellite communications over one or more of the L-, S-, C-, X- and Ku-bands.
Monopulse Tracking
Eleven Antenna
Author
Jungang Yin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
J. A. Aas
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Jian Yang
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Per-Simon Kildal
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2007; Edinburgh; United Kingdom; 11 November 2007 through 16 November 2007
11961
978-086341842-6 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1049/ic.2007.1491
ISBN
978-086341842-6