Detailed Description
Aiming at the hollow vortex characteristic of an OAM wave beam, the invention provides a method for reducing the dark area of an OAM antenna based on a frequency selection surface, wherein the frequency selection surface is loaded above the OAM antenna and comprises an antenna main body and the frequency selection surface; the antenna main body is used for transmitting OAM waves, and the frequency selection surface is loaded on the antenna main body and used for carrying out spatial filtering on the OAM antenna.
As shown in fig. 1, the method comprises the steps of:
s1, designing a single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface, wherein the whole size of the single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface is equal to the size of an antenna ground plane, and the passband bandwidth of the single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface covers the passband bandwidth of the OAM antenna;
s2, loading the frequency selection surface on the OAM antenna, and setting the distance between the FSS and the OAM antenna according to the Fabry-Perot resonant cavity theory;
s3, changing the dielectric constant of the frequency selective surface substrate, establishing a concave function curve of the frequency selective surface substrate and the OAM antenna non-zero mode dark area, and finding the lowest point of the concave function curve, namely the minimum point of the antenna dark area;
and S4, deriving a relation formula y of 0.054+0.046 sin (pi (x +0.74)/3.85) according to the thickness of the dielectric substrate on the frequency selection surface and the frequency deviation curve of the incident angle, wherein x is the thickness of the dielectric substrate on the frequency selection surface, and y is the deviation difference of the central frequency at the incident angle of 60 degrees relative to the central frequency at the incident angle of 0 degrees. The central frequency deviation is minimized when the incidence angle is 60 degrees, namely, the angle stability is optimized.
Further, step S1 specifically includes:
designing a unit cell, etching a pattern on a metal surface of the unit cell, and setting a simulation boundary condition as a cell boundary condition;
through mathematical calculation and simulation optimization of the existing mature technology, when plane waves enter the two-dimensional periodic structure which is infinitely and uniformly distributed, the passband bandwidth of the two-dimensional periodic structure covers the passband bandwidth of the OAM antenna;
according to the actual size of the OAM antenna, a single-layer single-face band-pass frequency selection surface with limited-size units periodically arranged along the X axis, the Y axis and the like is finally formed by combining the designed unit units.
Further, step S2 specifically includes:
loading a frequency selection surface above the OAM antenna, so that the frequency selection surface and an antenna ground plate form a Fabry-Perot resonant cavity;
and according to a Fabry-Perot cavity antenna theoretical formula, setting the distance between the FSS and the antenna to ensure that the cavity height meets the resonance condition, and further ensuring that the axial direction of the antenna has the maximum radiation direction.
Further, step S3 specifically includes:
and changing the dielectric constant of the frequency selective surface substrate to establish a concave function curve of the frequency selective surface substrate and the non-zero mode dark region of the OAM antenna.
According to the relationship curve between the two, it can be found that the OAM beam dark area can be significantly changed by changing the dielectric constant, and the dielectric constant corresponding to the lowest point of the curve is found, and the corresponding dark area is the minimum dark area.
Furthermore, OAM waves are emitted through the antenna main body, signals transmitted by the antenna main body are subjected to spatial filtering through the frequency selective surface, and finally the high-gain antenna with the obviously reduced dark area is obtained.
Further, the frequency selective surface includes a metal patch portion and a dielectric substrate: the metal patch part is connected with the dielectric substrate; and by changing various parameters of the dielectric substrate and the metal patch part, especially the dielectric constant, the high-gain antenna with the obviously reduced OAM wave beam dark area can be obtained. At present, no calculation research on the area of a dark area exists at home and abroad, but the reduction of the dark area is directly reflected by the reduction of divergence. The result of the examples below is a reduction in divergence angle to half that when the FSS is not loaded.
Furthermore, the frequency selective surface is a spatial band-pass filter, signals output from the antenna main body are designed and filtered according to the frequency band where the signals are located through the band-pass filter, and the pass band and the stop band of the band-pass filter are set according to the frequency band where the signals output by the antenna main body are located.
In consideration of the oblique incident wave characteristic of the OAM antenna, the dielectric substrate should be thick enough so that the frequency selective surface has good angular stability.
The invention will be further explained and supplemented with reference to the following examples.
Examples
As shown in fig. 2, the present embodiment provides an antenna for realizing dark space reduction of an OAM beam, the antenna including an antenna body, a frequency selective surface; the antenna body is used for transmitting OAM wave beams; the frequency selective surface is loaded above the antenna body and is used for carrying out spatial filtering on OAM waves.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 2, the antenna body includes a dielectric substrate 1, a dielectric substrate 2, a radiating patch 3, and a ground substrate 4. The upper surface of the dielectric substrate 2 is printed with a rectangular radiation patch 3, the lower surface of the dielectric substrate 2 is printed with a square grounding substrate 4, and the dielectric substrate 1 is printed on the lower surface of the grounding substrate 4. The feeding mode adopts coaxial feeding, four feeding ports are arranged below the dielectric substrate 1, the dielectric substrates 1 and 2 and the grounding substrate 4 are provided with through holes, an inner conductor of a coaxial connector penetrates through the through holes to be welded with the radiation patch 3, and an outer conductor is connected with the grounding substrate 4 to form a bottom feeding structure.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 2, the frequency selective surface includes a dielectric substrate 5 and a metal patch part 6, and the surface of the FSS is formed by a plurality of metal patch units 6 arranged periodically. The surface is a band-pass frequency selection surface, and the pass band and the stop band of the surface are designed according to the frequency band of the OAM wave transmitted by the antenna main body, so that the frequency band of the signal output by the output port is consistent with the frequency band of the signal originally output by the output port, and clutter is filtered.
As shown in fig. 1, the dark space reduction method based on the frequency selective surface of the present invention comprises the following steps:
s1, designing a single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface, wherein the size of the single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface is equal to the size of an antenna ground plane, and the passband bandwidth of the single-layer single-side band-pass frequency selection surface covers the passband bandwidth of the OAM antenna, and the method specifically comprises the following steps:
A. designing a unit cell, etching a pattern on the metal surface, and setting the simulation boundary condition as the cell boundary condition.
B. Through mathematical calculation and simulation optimization, the two-dimensional periodic structure which is infinitely and uniformly distributed can reach the purpose that the passband bandwidth covers the passband bandwidth of the OAM antenna when plane waves enter.
C. According to the actual size of the OAM antenna, a single-layer single-face band-pass frequency selection surface with limited-size units periodically arranged along the X axis, the Y axis and the like is finally formed by combining the designed unit units.
In the embodiment, the frequency selective surface loaded by the annular gap is selected, and the distance between the unit and the annular gap of the unit is ensured to be small enough to prevent the premature occurrence of grating lobes. The perimeter of the designed annular slot is approximately equal to the wavelength of the resonant frequency of the antenna.
S2, loading the frequency selection surface on the OAM antenna, and setting the distance between the FSS and the OAM antenna according to the Fabry-Perot resonant cavity theory, which specifically comprises the following steps:
A. and loading a frequency selection surface above the OAM antenna, so that the frequency selection surface and the antenna ground plate form a Fabry-Perot resonant cavity.
B. And according to a Fabry-Perot cavity antenna theoretical formula, setting the distance between the FSS and the antenna to ensure that the cavity height meets the resonance condition, and further ensuring that the axial direction of the antenna has the maximum radiation direction.
In the step B, when the height of the cavity meets the resonance condition, one part of the electromagnetic waves radiated by the OAM antenna is transmitted outwards through the FSS, the other part of the electromagnetic waves is reflected back into the resonant cavity, and the electromagnetic waves after multiple reflections are superposed on the outer surface of the FSS in the same phase to form high-gain radiation, so that the directivity of the antenna is improved, and the beam width is sharpened.
S3, changing the dielectric constant of the frequency selective surface substrate, establishing a concave function curve of the frequency selective surface substrate and the OAM antenna non-zero mode dark area, and finding the lowest point of the concave function curve, namely the minimum point of the dark area.
When the dielectric constant of the frequency selective surface substrate is changed, the beam pointing direction of the main lobe is gradually biased to normal phase while the dark area is reduced. When the dielectric constant increases to the increasing region of the relationship curve, it is found that the main beam pointing direction gradually deviates from the normal phase while the dark region is enlarged.
And changing the dielectric constant of the frequency selective surface substrate to establish a concave function curve of the frequency selective surface substrate and the non-zero mode dark region of the OAM antenna. The graph of this embodiment is shown in fig. 3, and it can be clearly seen that the function graph is a concave function curve, and the 0db angle in the dark region is the minimum when the dielectric constant is 3.5, which is the minimum point in the dark region.
S4, deriving a relation formula y of 0.054+0.046 sin (pi (x +0.74)/3.85) according to the frequency-selective surface dielectric substrate thickness and incident angle frequency deviation curve, so that the central frequency deviation is minimum at an incident angle of 60 °, that is, the angle stability is optimal.
When the thickness of the dielectric substrate of the frequency selective surface is changed, it can be found that the angular stability of the frequency selective surface is significantly improved. Due to the oblique incident wave characteristic of the uniform circular array OAM antenna of the embodiment, the angular stability of the frequency selective surface is very important.
In the embodiment of the dark area reduction method based on the frequency selective surface of the present invention, compared with the result of not loading the frequency selective surface, the angle of the dark area is reduced to half of the original angle at the directional diagram 0db, and the data is summarized as shown in fig. 4. The method provides possibility for receiving most of OAM wave at long distance and even completely receiving OAM wave.