Ultra-broadband Photonic Antenna System with Microwave Photonic Combination

Author

Lopez, E.R. ; Lunn, T. ; Fu, W. ; Ghorbani, K. ; Rowe, W.S.T. ; Mitchell, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The bandwidths of two aperture stacked patch antennas have been combined successfully into a single large bandwidth using microwave photonic techniques. The antenna system produces a 10 dB return loss bandwidth of approximately 105 % with average gain level of 5 dBi and amplitude variation of plusmn1.5 dB. Radiation analysis shows the level of interaction of the two antennas according to their relative position.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; aperture antennas; microstrip antennas; microwave photonics; ultra wideband antennas; aperture stacked patch antennas; microwave photonic technique; radiation analysis; return loss bandwidth; ultra-broadband photonic antenna system; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Aperture antennas; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Hardware; Microwave antennas; Microwave theory and techniques; Patch antennas; Radio frequency; Microwave Photonics; Stacked patch antenna; antenna arrays; wavelength multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2007. APMC 2007. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0748-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0749-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2007.4554726

Filename

4554726