Self-Polarizing Fabry-Perot Antennas Based on Polarization Twisting Element

Shoaib Muhammad (1) , Ronan Sauleau (1) , Guido Valerio (1) , Laurent Le Coq (1) , Hervé Legay (2)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 TAS - Thales Alenia Space [Toulouse]

A new configuration of a self-polarizing Fabry-Perot (FP) antenna is presented to generate circular polarization with high gain levels using a simple linearly polarized feed. It consists of an FP resonator combined with a polarization-twisting ground plane. An analytical model is proposed to facilitate the antenna design, and the corresponding results are shown to be in very close agreement with full-wave simulations. The experimental prototype built in -band exhibits a combined bandwidth (3 dB axial ratio, 3 dB gain drop, and 10 dB impedance matching) of 3% with a maximum realized gain of 18.0 dB. The antenna is completely shielded with an aperture size of and a height of only . Such antennas are attractive candidates for high-power space applications at low frequencies ( -to -bands) where standard horns are very bulky.

Mots clés: Circular polarization; self-polarization; Fabry- Perot resonators; horns

Domaines: Electronique

Shoaib Muhammad, Ronan Sauleau, Guido Valerio, Laurent Le Coq, Hervé Legay. Self-Polarizing Fabry-Perot Antennas Based on Polarization Twisting Element. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2013, 61 (3), pp.1032-1040. ⟨10.1109/TAP.2012.2227443⟩. ⟨hal-00905791⟩