Development of a Dual-Circularly-Polarized W-Band Receiver Front End
Paper i proceeding, 2025

We report on the development of an ultra-low loss dual-circularly-polarized receiver frond end operating in the W-band. The design aims at applications for high throughput satellite telecommunication payloads. This integrated front end consists of an orthomode transducer, low noise amplifiers and output filters. A novel approach to machine the sensitive parts in a single piece mitigated losses and signal imbalance due to split blocks. The resulting demonstrator exhibits a high sensitivity, with a 3 dB average noise figure and resulting cross-polarization suppression in excess of 20 dB and channel gain of over 25 dB over the targeted frequency range of 81–86 GHz.

satellite communication

W-band

circular polarization

receiver front end

mm-waves

Författare

Josip Vukusic

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

Peter Sobis

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

Low Noise Factory AB

Jörgen Stenarson

Low Noise Factory AB

Even Froen

Kongsberg Norspace AS

Wilhelm Brubakk

Kongsberg Norspace AS

Sascha Krause

Kongsberg Norspace AS

Jan Stake

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

2025 55th European Microwave Conference (EuMC)


9782874870811 (ISBN)

55th European Microwave Conference
Utrecht, Netherlands,

THz kommunikation - NU

Stiftelsen för Strategisk forskning (SSF) (CHI19-0027), 2021-01-01 -- 2025-12-31.

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Infrastruktur

Kollberglaboratoriet

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.23919/EuMC65286.2025.11235219

ISBN

9782874870811

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