Design of a wideband feed for the Tianlai project proceedings of the XXXIst URSI general assembly and scientific symposium to be held in Beijing, China (CIE), August 17–23, 2014

Author

Tao Liu ; Fengquan Wu ; Zhiping Chen ; Juyong Zhang ; Xuelei Chen ; Huli Shi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Hangzhou Dianzi Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a wideband feed for on-axis parabolic cylinder antenna. This assembly, comprising four 4-square elements and reflective cavity, supports dual polarization. The feed is fed by a standard quarter wave balun which can provide a DC short. The current design is intended to work with the on-axis parabolic cylinder antenna from 700MHz to 1200MHz. The simulated results show that the VSWR from 700MHz to 1200MHz, stays below 2.3:1. A prototype of the proposed feed is built to validate the design experimentally, and a bandwidth of 700MHz-1200MHz is achieved.

Keywords

baluns; broadband antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; reflectarray antennas; 4-square elements; Beijing; China; Tianlai project; VSWR; XXXI URSI general assembly; dual polarization; frequency 700 MHz to 1200 MHz; on-axis parabolic cylinder antenna; quarter wave balun; reflective cavity; scientific symposium; wideband feed; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Broadband antennas; Copper; Dipole antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6930029

Filename

6930029