Design of TBDP shared-aperture SAR array

Author

Zhong, Shun-Shi ; Sun, Zhu ; Kong, Ling-Bing ; Gao, Chu ; Wang, Wei ; Jin, Mou-Ping

Author_Institution

Sch. of Commun. & Inf. Eng., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

162

Abstract

The design of a L/S/X tri-band dual-polarization (TBDP) shared-aperture microstrip array antenna for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications is introduced, which is assembled by two dual-band (L/S and L/X) dual-polarization shared-aperture sub-arrays and one L-band dual-polarization sub-array. The measured results give wide impedance bandwidth (VSWR≤2) of 13.4%, 14.8% and 16.8% in L-, S- and X- bands, respectively, and the array isolation of better than 37dB in all three frequency bands, with cross-polarization level of below -27dB within the main lobe region for the three bands.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antenna arrays; synthetic aperture radar; L-S-X TBDP shared-aperture microstrip array antenna; L-S-X triband dual-polarization shared-aperture microstrip array antenna; L-band dual-polarization subarray; TBDP shared-aperture SAR array design; cross-polarization level; dual-band dual-polarization shared-aperture subarrays; frequency bands; synthetic aperture radar applications; Antenna measurements; Apertures; Arrays; Bandwidth; Frequency measurement; L-band; Microstrip; Dual-polarization; microstrip array; shared-aperture; synthetic aperture radar; tri-band; wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2011 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2034-5

Type

conf

Filename

6173710