EP1665551A2 - Terminal utilisateur bi-directionnel de large diffusion a frequences d'emission configurables - Google Patents
Terminal utilisateur bi-directionnel de large diffusion a frequences d'emission configurablesInfo
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- EP1665551A2 EP1665551A2 EP04816196A EP04816196A EP1665551A2 EP 1665551 A2 EP1665551 A2 EP 1665551A2 EP 04816196 A EP04816196 A EP 04816196A EP 04816196 A EP04816196 A EP 04816196A EP 1665551 A2 EP1665551 A2 EP 1665551A2
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
- H01P1/00—Auxiliary devices
- H01P1/20—Frequency-selective devices, e.g. filters
- H01P1/207—Hollow waveguide filters
- H01P1/209—Hollow waveguide filters comprising one or more branching arms or cavities wholly outside the main waveguide
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- the invention relates to a bi-directional user terminal with configurable transmission frequencies, in particular to a satellite terminal with return channel capable of operating in a frequency band such as the Ku, Ka or other bands.
- a frequency band such as the Ku, Ka or other bands.
- the present invention will be described with reference to a bidirectional terminal operating in Ka band.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a conventional architecture of a frequency transposition circuit or BUC (Block Up Conversion) in Ka band placed in an outdoor unit (or ODU for “Outdoor Unit”) of transmission.
- the RF signal at an intermediate frequency IF in the 0.95-1.45GHz band comes from the indoor unit (or IDU for "indoor unit”) and is transposed into the Ka band by using a subharmonic mixer (X2) and a local oscillator (hereinafter OL) operating in the Ku band.
- X2 subharmonic mixer
- OL local oscillator
- the output of mixer X2 is sent to a bandpass filter 1. Indeed, very selective bandpass filtering is necessary to eliminate in particular the residual component in Ka band (2 * OL) and which is at twice the frequency of the local oscillator, which must not be radiated by the terminal.
- the output of the filter 1 is sent to an amplifier 2, the output of which is connected to, the source 3 of an antenna 4.
- the emission bands correspond to frequencies of the local oscillator OL of the BUC, of 13,725 GHz and 14,275 GHz respectively.
- the annoying components to be filtered corresponding to 2OL are then 27.45 and 28.55 GHz.
- Figure 2 which illustrates the frequency plans.
- the invention therefore provides an evolving product capable of covering several bands or sub-bands, the configuration of which is easy and can be done on site without the intervention of a professional in order to significantly reduce the installation costs.
- the invention proposes a single type of terminal making it possible to cover the different bands, which is of significant economic interest. As a result, the minimization of industrialization costs and the increase in production volumes make it possible to reduce terminal costs.
- the same product can be used by several operators.
- the invention relates more particularly to an outdoor unit of a reception terminal including a return channel.
- This return channel comprises: - a local oscillator supplying a signal having a frequency selectable from at least two frequencies, - a transposition means which transposes a signal to be transmitted using the signal supplied by the local oscillator, - a broadband filtering means which lets pass the signals whose frequency corresponds to the transposed signal independently of the frequency of the local oscillator, and a waveguide element having a cover which depends on the frequency selected for the oscillator local.
- the cover of the waveguide transforms the waveguide into a band rejector filter which rejects a band corresponding to a leakage of the transposition frequency in the wide band.
- the cover is either a flat cover, or a cover including resonant cavities coupled by slot.
- the waveguide comprises resonant cavities coupled by slot, and the cover is either a flat cover, or a cover comprising elements which electrically block the slots.
- FIG. 4 represents the perspective configuration of a conventional band stop filter
- FIGS. 5a and 5b schematically represent a first embodiment of the present invention
- FIGS. 6a and 6b schematically represent a second embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 7 illustrates the transmission frequency plans corresponding to the invention.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the radio architecture of a BUC according to the present invention in the case of a bi-directional terminal operating in Ka band.
- the proposed BUC is capable of covering the two aforementioned frequency bands, namely 28.4-28.6GHz and 29.5-30 GHz.
- the BUC implements broadband pass band filtering covering the two frequency bands, namely 28.4-30 GHz, and capable of rejecting the frequency at 2 * OL lowest (corresponding to the low band BB).
- the return channel to the BUC in FIG. 3 therefore comprises a harmonic mixer X2 receiving respectively as an input the RF signal at the intermediate frequency IF in the band 0.95-1.45 GHz and the signal from a local oscillator 10, the oscillation frequency OL of which is adjustable to 13,725 GHz or 14,275 GHz depending on the high or low operating band chosen.
- the output of the mixer X2 is sent to a bandpass filter 11 covering the two bands, namely 28.4-30 GHz, in the embodiment shown.
- the output of the bandpass filter 11 is sent to a rejector filter 12.
- the rejector filter 12 is a configurable filter and is capable of effectively rejecting the frequency at 2 * highest OL (corresponding to the high band BH).
- the rejector filter 12 is, for example, a waveguide rejector filter which can be easily connected to a bandpass filter which itself has guide ports.
- the rejector filter 12 is connected to the source of the antenna 4.
- An example of a rejector filter or band stop filter is shown in FIG. 4a.
- it is a three-pole filter, namely a rectangular waveguide 20 coupled by slots 21 with three resonant cavities 22 tuned to the frequency to be rejected.
- the resonant cavities 20 which form resonant elements LC have a length substantially equal to ⁇ g / 2 where ⁇ g is the guided wavelength calculated at the rejection frequency.
- the cavities are coupled to the main guide by inductive slots 21.
- the distance between two slots is preferably equal to 3 ⁇ g / 4 to avoid coupling effects between the slots, although theoretically it could be ⁇ g / 4.
- the terminal thus described can be very simply configured by modifying the frequency of the local oscillator 10 and by activating / deactivating the rejector filter 12.
- the modification of the frequency of the local oscillator 10 is done, for example, mechanically. '' by action on a switch accessible by the operator.
- the modification of the frequency of the local oscillator can also be done via the indoor unit or IDU which then controls the external unit or ODU by a bus of the Disecq type for example. It is considered that the rejector filter is an integral part of the source (feed) of the antenna, so that the additional cost provided by this function remains minimal.
- the first embodiment represented in FIGS. 5a and 5b, consists of structure guided 30 whose cover 31 is flat if no band stop filtering is required, as shown in FIG. 5a. Otherwise, this cover is replaced by a cover 32 which contains the coupling slots 33 as well as the resonant cavities 34, as shown in FIG. 5b.
- the second embodiment shown in Figures 6a and
- FIG. 6b consists of a guided structure 40 including the coupling slots 41 and the resonant cavities 42 but open on their upper part.
- the cover 43 comprises profiled elements 44 making it possible to plug the openings that are the slots 41 and the open cavities 42 as shown in FIG. 6a.
- the guide becomes filtering by simply fixing a flat cover 45 over the guided structure 40.
- FIG. 7 illustrates the two frequency planes in FIG. 6b (low band and high band) with switching of the oscillator local to the OL frequency and activation / deactivation of a 28.55GHz rejector filter.
- This scalable terminal can be easily configured by the user without the intervention of a professional, thanks to a manual switch (or automatic controlled by the IDU) and by a modification of the filtering by changing the cover of a waveguide.
- This system significantly reduces the installation cost.
- this technique can be extended to any other multi-band transmission device.
- the present invention has been described with reference to a terminal operating in Ka band with a rejector filter constituted by a rectangular 3-pole waveguide, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that it can be used in terminals operating in other bands and with different waveguide rejector filters.
- the present invention can also be implemented in high-frequency multi-band user terminals for applications of the MMDS (Microwave Multipoint Distribution System) type operating in the 40 GHz bands.
- MMDS Microwave Multipoint Distribution System
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| EP04816196A EP1665551B1 (fr) | 2003-09-18 | 2004-09-13 | Terminal utilisateur bi-directionnel de large diffusion a frequences d'emission configurables |
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| EP03292300 | 2003-09-18 | ||
| PCT/FR2004/050429 WO2005029719A2 (fr) | 2003-09-18 | 2004-09-13 | Terminal utilisateur bi-directionnel de large diffusion à fréquences d'émission configurables |
| EP04816196A EP1665551B1 (fr) | 2003-09-18 | 2004-09-13 | Terminal utilisateur bi-directionnel de large diffusion a frequences d'emission configurables |
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| EP1665551A2 true EP1665551A2 (fr) | 2006-06-07 |
| EP1665551B1 EP1665551B1 (fr) | 2007-11-14 |
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| WO (1) | WO2005029719A2 (fr) |
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- 2004-09-13 DE DE602004010157T patent/DE602004010157T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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| WO2005029719A2 (fr) | 2005-03-31 |
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| US20070032190A1 (en) | 2007-02-08 |
| DE602004010157D1 (de) | 2007-12-27 |
| US7697888B2 (en) | 2010-04-13 |
| EP1665551B1 (fr) | 2007-11-14 |
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