• DocumentCode
    2178866
  • Title

    Design of medium-size dielectric bifocal lenses for wide-angle beam scanning antennas

  • Author

    La, Tran Vu ; Nguyen, Ngoc Tinh ; Casaletti, Massimiliano ; Sauleau, Ronan

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes (IETR), Univ. of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    26-30 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    3287
  • Lastpage
    3291
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the design of medium-size bifocal lens antennas (BLA) for multibeam antennas (MBA) applications. The radiation characteristics of the BLA are compared to those of plano-spherical lens antennas (SLA) and integrated lens antennas (ILA) in order to highlight the advantages of BLA configurations in terms of scan loss, half power beamwidth and radiation patterns for wide scanning angles.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; lens antennas; multibeam antennas; ILA; MBA application; antenna radiation pattern; half power beamwidth; integrated lens antenna; medium-size BLA; medium-size dielectric bifocal lens; multibeam antenna application; planoSLA; planospherical lens antenna; wide scanning angle; wide-angle beam scanning antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Feeds; Finite difference methods; Geometry; Lenses; bifocal lens; integrated lens; multibeam antenna; plano-spherical lens;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Prague
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0918-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0919-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206003
  • Filename
    6206003