Stacked Geodesic Lenses for Radar Applications in the W-Band
2022 (English)In: 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
New radar architectures employ multiple transmitters and receivers to enhance their performance, combining wide and narrow beams to improve the spatial resolution. In this contribution, two antenna system configurations based on stacked geodesic lenses are compared. These lenses are fully-metallic parallel plate waveguides that present very low transmission losses in the millimetre-wave band. Narrow beams are generated by a 15-port Luneburg-Rinehart lens with a scanning span of +/- 50 degrees and 23.4 dB gain at 77 GHz. For wide beams, two alternatives are proposed. One alternative is a 3-port defocused lens antenna with a scanning angle of +/- 50 degrees and 14.5 dBi gain. The second proposal is a 12-port Luneburg-Rinehart lens fed with 1-to-4 power dividers forming a 3-port antenna with a scanning span of +/- 45.5 degrees and 16.2 dBi gain.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022.
Series
Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, ISSN 2164-3342
Keywords [en]
Radar, lens antennas, geodesic lenses, Luneburg lens, near and far fields analysis, multiple beam antennas
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316297ISI: 000815113900115Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130626699OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316297DiVA, id: diva2:1686946
Conference
16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), MAR 27-APR 01, 2022, Madrid, Spain
Note
QC 20220812
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-88-31299-04-6
2022-08-122022-08-122022-08-12Bibliographically approved