학술논문

RF front-end design of a planar broadband phased array for satellite reception
Document Type
Conference
Source
2012 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on. :1267-1270 Mar, 2012
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Antenna measurements
Radio frequency
Transmission line measurements
Broadband antennas
Arrays
Optical beams
Language
ISSN
2164-3342
Abstract
This work describes the architectural design of the RF front-end of a hybrid phased array antenna for Ku-band satellite reception. The array will include RF — as well as optical components and can be divided into 2 separate parts: one RF-frontend and one optical part. The focus within this paper is on the RF-frontend, especially the integration of active RF-components and the radiating elements in a planar multilayer stack-up, while taking the link-budget requirements into consideration. First layouts and measurements are discussed, and a first impression of a 64 antenna element module is presented.