Synergy in design of phased array antennas for modern radio astronomy and wireless communication systems
Paper i proceeding, 2016

This paper accentuates the similarity in the requirements of the radiation characteristics of antenna elements used in directive beam-steering arrays for radio astronomy and wireless communication systems, i.e. aperture phased array radio telescopes and base transceiver stations. Using two reference antenna elements the equivalence between two beamforming strategies commonly implemented in wireless communication and radio astronomy systems is illustrated. For the case of maximum power receivers it is demonstrated that the methodology followed to assess and characterize the performance of an antenna element in wireless communication systems can readily be implemented to compare the field-of-view (FoV) coverage of antenna elements in radio astronomy applications. Finally, using an ideal reference element, it is shown that a single figure-of-merit - field-of-view coverage gain - can be used to compare the performance of antenna elements over an entire field-of-view coverage.

radio astronomy

antenna radiation patterns

phased arrays

Författare

D.S Prinsloo

Universiteit Stellenbosch

Rob Maaskant

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Marianna Ivashina

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Andres Alayon Glazunov

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

P. Meyer

Universiteit Stellenbosch

10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016, Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 April 2016

2164-3342 (ISSN)


978-8-8907-0186-3 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Kommunikationssystem

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481793

ISBN

978-8-8907-0186-3

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2017-10-08