EP3335267B1 - Antenne à ondes de surface, réseau d'antennes et utilisation d'une antenne ou d'un réseau d'antennes - Google Patents

Antenne à ondes de surface, réseau d'antennes et utilisation d'une antenne ou d'un réseau d'antennes Download PDF

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EP3335267B1
EP3335267B1 EP16748340.3A EP16748340A EP3335267B1 EP 3335267 B1 EP3335267 B1 EP 3335267B1 EP 16748340 A EP16748340 A EP 16748340A EP 3335267 B1 EP3335267 B1 EP 3335267B1
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Jean-Yves Laurent
Sébastien PALUD
Pierre-Yves Jezequel
Franck Colombel
Stéphane AVRILLON
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    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/16—Resonant antennas with feed intermediate between the extremities of the antenna, e.g. centre-fed dipole
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    • H01Q1/04—Adaptation for subterranean or subaqueous use
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    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q13/00—Waveguide horns or mouths; Slot antennas; Leaky-waveguide antennas; Equivalent structures causing radiation along the transmission path of a guided wave
    • H01Q13/20—Non-resonant leaky-waveguide or transmission-line antennas; Equivalent structures causing radiation along the transmission path of a guided wave
    • H01Q13/26—Surface waveguide constituted by a single conductor, e.g. strip conductor
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
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    • H01Q21/0006—Particular feeding systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/08—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart the units being spaced along or adjacent to a rectilinear path
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/16—Resonant antennas with feed intermediate between the extremities of the antenna, e.g. centre-fed dipole
    • H01Q9/20—Two collinear substantially straight active elements; Substantially straight single active elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/30—Resonant antennas with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole
    • H01Q9/42—Resonant antennas with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/44—Resonant antennas with a plurality of divergent straight elements, e.g. V-dipole, X-antenna; with a plurality of elements having mutually inclined substantially straight portions

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  • the invention relates to an antenna, an antenna array and the use of an antenna or an antenna array.
  • the invention relates to an antenna or an array of vertically and / or elliptically polarized antennas adapted to transmit and / or receive surface waves in a wide frequency band including in particular all or part of the low, medium and high frequencies. highs between about 30 kHz and about 30 MHz, namely LF, MF and HF.
  • Antennas using only a surface wave as propagation vector are very few.
  • Current surface wave antennas are whip or biconical antennas that are poorly suited for such applications.
  • a space wave field also called ionospheric radiation
  • the French patent application FR2965978 filed by the applicant, proposes a solution to significantly reduce the vertical size of the antenna, thus reducing the implementation costs and improved the discretion of the antenna.
  • the antenna allows an improvement of the propagation by surface waves and a decrease in ionospheric radiation. Nevertheless, the ionospheric radiation remains important, especially for angles between ⁇ [20 °; 80 °] around the normal to the ground plane on which the antenna is arranged. This remaining ionospheric radiation can, in certain frequency bands, generate attenuation phenomena ( fading in English), especially when the surface waves and the space waves interfere, at the surface of the Earth, after propagation in different environments and paths.
  • the document of the prior art GB233346 describes an antenna having 2 horizontal strands and on both sides thereof at their ends 2 vertical strands.
  • the invention aims to overcome at least some of the disadvantages of known antennas.
  • the invention aims to provide, in at least one embodiment of the invention, an antenna whose preferential radiation is a surface wave radiation.
  • the invention also aims to provide, in at least one embodiment, an antenna whose ionospheric radiation is reduced.
  • the invention also aims to provide, in at least one embodiment of the invention, a simple antenna to achieve.
  • the invention also aims to provide, in at least one embodiment, a discrete antenna and whose vertical footprint is low.
  • the invention also aims to provide, in at least one embodiment, an antenna whose bandwidth can be easily modified.
  • the invention also aims to provide a network of surface wave antennas.
  • the invention also aims to provide antenna or antenna array use for surface wave radiation.
  • An antenna according to the invention thus allows the emission / reception of vertically polarized directional surface waves and a reduction of the ionospheric radiation compared to conventional antennas by using a particular antenna form, so as to emit / receive surface waves.
  • Connecting the antenna to a conductive medium, such as a terrestrial or aquatic environment allows the radiation of surface waves propagating along this medium.
  • the surface wave is adapted to follow the terrestrial curvature, thus allowing propagation over long distances.
  • the antenna has a height equal to the length of the vertical wire radiating elements, in other words a height of between 0.03 ⁇ 0 and 0.1 ⁇ 0 , which makes it an electrically short antenna in the vertical plane, and having a reduced vertical footprint.
  • Such an antenna is therefore discrete. In addition, it is less sensitive to wind, blast, lightning, earthquakes, etc.
  • the central wavelength ⁇ 0 corresponds to the wavelength associated with the operating frequency if the antenna radiates in a single frequency, or, if the antenna radiates in a frequency band, at the wavelength associated with the center frequency of said frequency band.
  • the radiating elements form two loops symmetrical with respect to the central element, allowing the wave radiation of directional surfaces.
  • an antenna according to the invention comprises at least two horizontal wire radiating elements each connected to at least two vertical wire radiating elements and to the central element.
  • At least two horizontal wire radiating elements are of the same length, arranged side by side and at the same distance from the conductive medium.
  • Horizontal wired radiating elements side by side make it possible to increase the width of the antenna and thus to widen the radiation frequency band of the antenna.
  • At least two horizontal wire elements are parallel, of different lengths, arranged one above the other at a different distance from the conductive medium.
  • the horizontal wired radiating elements allow the antenna to be radiated at an additional center frequency, by duplicating the antenna elements at suitable lengths so as to form an antenna. double resonance.
  • an antenna according to the invention comprises localized elements of resistive, capacitive and / or inductive type adapted to form current traps on the antenna.
  • the localized elements make it possible to form current traps on the antenna, that is to say to form circuits open at certain frequencies and closed at other frequencies, so as to create multiple resonances of the antenna.
  • the invention also relates to an antenna array characterized in that it comprises at least two antennas according to the invention, said antennas forming an alignment of antennas so that the horizontal wire radiating elements of said antennas are perpendicular to one another. same alignment plan.
  • the network formed is a linear network of antennas, in which all antennas are aligned.
  • an antenna array from the antennas according to the invention makes it possible to accentuate the advantages provided by these antennas: in particular, the radiation of the antenna array has a better directivity, the gain of the surface waves is improved and the ionospheric radiation is greatly reduced.
  • the antenna array has the same vertical footprint as the antenna according to the invention for improved performance.
  • the antenna according to the invention remains however interesting for situations requiring to occupy a small surface on the ground.
  • an antenna array according to the invention comprises at least two antenna alignments whose alignment planes are parallel, each horizontal radiating element of an antenna of an alignment being aligned with a horizontal radiating element of an antenna. antenna of at least one other alignment.
  • the formed network is a planar array of antennas, comprising a plurality of linear arrays.
  • the invention also relates to a use of at least one antenna according to the invention, said antenna being connected to a terrestrial or aquatic conductive medium, for the emission / reception of surface waves so that said surface waves propagate along said medium.
  • the invention also relates to a use of at least one antenna array according to the invention, each antenna of said antenna array being connected to a terrestrial or aquatic conductive medium, for transmitting / receiving surface waves of so that said surface waves propagate along said medium.
  • an antenna according to the invention or an antenna array according to the invention on a terrestrial or aquatic conductive medium such as the earth, the sea, a lake or a salt marsh, allows a radiation of surface waves along said medium.
  • the conductive medium is large relative to the antenna or the antenna array (said large dimensions are considered infinite with respect to the antenna or antenna array dimensions) and thus enables the propagation of waves of surfaces over long distances.
  • the large dimensions of the medium conductors allow a reduction of the ionospheric radiation.
  • the invention also relates to an antenna, an antenna array and an antenna or antenna array use characterized in combination by all or some of the characteristics mentioned above or below.
  • the figure 1 represents schematically in a plane xOz an antenna 20 according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna 20 comprises a horizontal wire radiating element 22, called horizontal element 22, connected to three vertical wire radiating elements 24a, 24b, 24c, said elements 24a, 24b, 24c vertical.
  • the vertical elements 24a, 24b, 24c each comprise an upper end connected to the horizontal element 22, and a lower end connected to a conductive medium 26.
  • the radiating elements may be made of tubes or metal son multistrand or single-strand, preferably of small section.
  • the conductive medium 26 is an imperfect conducting medium adapted to the surface wave propagation.
  • the conductive medium may be a medium with high electrical conductivity such as the sea, a salt marsh, a salt lake, etc., or a lower conductivity medium such as earth, sand, etc.
  • a ground plane is integrated in the conductive medium 26 and is connected to the vertical elements 24.
  • the ground plane can take different forms (circle, rectangle, irregular polygon, etc.) and covers a surface substantially equal to or greater than the projection of the antenna on the surface of the conductive medium.
  • two vertical elements 24a and 24c are respectively connected to a first end and a second end of the horizontal element 22.
  • a third vertical element 24b, said central vertical element 24b is connected to the horizontal element 22 at its center.
  • the central vertical element 24b is connected to a device 28 for feeding the antenna.
  • the horizontal element 22 has a length between 0.5 ⁇ 0 and ⁇ 0 , which corresponds to the length of the antenna, and the vertical elements 24a, 24b, 24c have a length of between 0.03 ⁇ 0 and 0 , 1 ⁇ 0 , which corresponds to a height h of the antenna relative to the conductive medium.
  • the antenna 20 is thus electrically short in the vertical plane and has a small vertical footprint.
  • the antenna is particularly suitable for transmitting and / or receiving waves of directional surfaces which propagate on the along the conductive medium, allowing long-wave propagation along the earth's curvature. This propagation is favored by the discontinuity between the air in which the surface waves propagate and the conducting medium.
  • the Figures 2 and 3 represent radiation patterns respectively along the xOy plane and along the yOz plane of the antenna according to the first embodiment of the invention, in which the horizontal element has a length of 0.7 ⁇ 0 and the vertical elements have a length of 0.06 ⁇ 0 .
  • the lines corresponding to the angles -90 ° and 90 ° represent the axis Oy.
  • the antenna thus has a directional radiation in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal element 22 (that is to say along the axis Oy), and having a significant gain for a surface wave radiation close to the conducting medium. , that is to say for zenith angles close to -90 ° and 90 °.
  • the figure 4 represents schematically according to the plane xOz an antenna 20 according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna includes additional 24d, 24e, 24f, 24g vertical elements, making it possible to create additional resonance loops of varying sizes.
  • These additional vertical elements are arranged between the vertical elements described above and are connected to the horizontal element 22 so as to form a plurality of sections 30a, 30b, 30c, 30d, 30e, 30f of different lengths on the horizontal element 22.
  • two first sections 30a and 30b have a length of the order of 0.175 ⁇ 0
  • two second sections 30c and 30d have a length of the order of 0.35 ⁇ 0
  • two third sections 30e and 30f have a length of the order of 0.5 ⁇ 0 .
  • These sections 30a, 30b, 30c, 30d, 30e, 30f allow multiple resonance of the multi-frequency antenna.
  • the figure 5 represents schematically according to the plane xOz an antenna 20 according to a third embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna comprises two additional elements 24d, 24e vertical as in the second embodiment of the invention, as well as localized elements, here two first localized elements 32a and 32b disposed on the horizontal element 22, and two second localized elements. 32c and 32d each disposed on one of two additional elements 24d, 24e.
  • the localized elements may be resistive, capacitive (capacitors) or inductive (coils) elements. These localized elements are commonly called " load " in English. Localized elements can reproduce the RLC resonance of the radiating elements with a reduced physical length (or bulk) but an equivalent electrical length.
  • the localized elements can also make it possible to create, on the radiating elements, open circuits (or high impedance) at certain operating frequencies and closed at other operating frequencies, thus allowing a variation of the resonance of the radiating elements according to the frequency Operating. These localized elements thus create multiple resonances using current traps.
  • the figure 6 schematically shows in perspective an antenna 20 according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna comprises a plurality of horizontal elements, here three horizontal elements 22a, 22b, 22c, parallel to each other.
  • Each horizontal element has each of its ends connected to a vertical element, and the three horizontal elements are connected in their center to a single vertical element.
  • Conductor wires connect the first ends of the horizontal elements to each other and the second ends of the horizontal elements to each other.
  • the presence of a plurality of horizontal elements increases the width Lr of the antenna, thus increasing the bandwidth of the antenna, in particular by improving the standing wave ratio (ROS).
  • ROS standing wave ratio
  • the figure 7 schematically shows in perspective an antenna 20 according to a fifth embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna comprises a plurality of horizontal elements, here three horizontal elements 22a, 22b, 22c intersecting at their center.
  • the bandwidth of the antenna is increased in particular by improving the ROS.
  • the connection of the three horizontal elements in their middle makes it possible to reduce the reactive parts of the impedance of the antenna.
  • the figure 8 schematically shows in the plane xOz an antenna 20 according to a sixth embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna 20 comprises, in addition to the horizontal element 22 and the three vertical elements 24a, 24b, 24c of the first embodiment, a second horizontal element 122 and two second vertical elements 124a, 124c of reduced size, making it possible to form the antenna. equivalent of a second antenna resonant at a frequency f bis different from f 0 (the frequency f bis being associated with a wavelength ⁇ bis ).
  • the horizontal element 122 has a length between 0.5 ⁇ bis and ⁇ bis and the two vertical elements 124a, 124c have a length between 0.03 ⁇ bis and 0.1 ⁇ bis .
  • the second horizontal element 122 is connected at its center to the central vertical element 24b, thus allowing a common supply by the supply device 28.
  • the antenna 20 is thus a double resonance antenna by duplicating the basic structure of the antenna with different dimensions, adapted to two different frequencies f 0 and f bis .
  • the figure 9 schematically shows in perspective a network 34 of antennas according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna array is composed of a plurality of antennas according to one of the embodiments of the invention, for example here N antennas referenced A 1 , A 2 , ..., A N-1 , A N according to the first embodiment of the invention.
  • the antennas are aligned so that all the horizontal elements are perpendicular to the same alignment plane.
  • the antennas thus aligned form an antenna alignment, also called linear array of antennas.
  • the antennas are powered by equiamplitude and equiphase sources.
  • each antenna is spaced from the other antennas by a distance d equal to 0.93 ⁇ 0 .
  • the antennas are represented with different length-width proportions of the embodiments described above, but their dimensions are between 0.5 ⁇ 0 and ⁇ 0 for the length and 0.03 ⁇ 0 and 0.1 ⁇ 0 for the height, as previously described.
  • the Figures 10 and 11 represent radiation patterns respectively along the yOz plane and along the xOy plane of the antenna network 34 according to the first embodiment of the invention.
  • the lines corresponding to the angles -90 ° and 90 ° represent the axis Oy.
  • the surface-wave radiation of the antenna described above is thus improved by the networking of several of these antennas to form an antenna array.
  • the radiation along the yOz plane of the antenna array is very close to the -90 ° and 90 ° angles which correspond to surface waves very close to the surface of the conducting medium, and the ionospheric radiation is very greatly reduced. This improvement in performance is visible from the networking of two antennas, and is accentuated by adding more antennas, including six antennas.
  • the surface wave ratio on ionospheric waves (sky waves) can be further optimized using appropriate amplitude weighting and / or phase weighting.
  • the radiation along the xOy plane shows that the directivity of the antenna is also greatly improved in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal elements of the antennas.
  • the figure 12 schematically shows in perspective a network 34 of antennas according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • the antenna array 34 is composed of a plurality of antenna alignments as described with reference to the first embodiment of the antenna array.
  • the antenna array thus forms a planar array of antennas, in two dimensions.
  • the network thus comprises X alignments of Y antennas referenced A 1.1 , A 2.1 , ..., A X, 1 A 1.2 , A 2.2 , ..., A X, 2 , ... , A 1, Y-1 , A 2, Y-1 , A X, Y-1 , A 1, Y , A 2, Y , A X, Y.
  • the distance d x between two alignments is less than ⁇ 0 .
  • the antennas of different alignments are arranged so that their horizontal radiating elements are not in contact.
  • two antennas located side by side are offset on the axis Oy so as not to be in contact.
  • the alignments have a phase shift ⁇ with respect to each other.
  • ⁇ the phase shift of the antenna A 1,1 of the first alignment comprising the antennas At 1.1 , A 1.2 , ..., A 1, Y-1 , A 1, Y , the antenna A 2.1 of the second alignment comprising the antennas A 2.1 , A 2.2,.
  • a 2, Y-1 , A 2, Y has a phase shift equal to 2 ⁇ and the antenna A X, 1 of the Xth alignment comprising the antennas A X, 1 , A X, 2 , ..., A X, Y-1 , A X, Y has a phase shift equal to X ⁇ .
  • antennas of the same line may have different phases: for example, two antennas A and 1.1 to 1.2 represented form a subnet R 1 fed with the same amplitude and the same phase, and the two antennas A 1 , Y-1 and A 1, Y shown form a subnetwork R 2 fed with the same amplitude and the same phase but with a phase shift of 90 ° with respect to the antennas of the subnetwork R 1 .
  • This offset in each alignment provides a unidirectional radiation.
  • the Figures 13 and 14 represent radiation patterns respectively along the yOz plane and along the xOy plane of the antenna array according to the second embodiment of the invention.
  • the lines corresponding to the angles -90 ° and 90 ° represent the axis Oy.
  • the antenna array comprises three alignments of four antennas, ie twelve antennas.
  • the central wavelength ⁇ 0 is equal to 28 m
  • the horizontal radiating elements of the antennas have a length of 18 m (ie about 0.64 ⁇ 0 )
  • the antennas have a height of 1.8 m (or about 0.064 ⁇ 0 ).
  • the distance d x between two alignments is equal to 10m.
  • the distance d y between two antennas of the same alignment is equal to 20.2 m. antennas of the same phase (of the same sub-network), and equal to 27 m for antennas out of phase by 90 ° (of a different sub-network).
  • the curves represent radiations according to several values of ⁇ , respectively 0 ° for the curves 40a and 40b, 22.5 ° for the curves 42a and 42b, 44 ° for the curves 44a and 44b, 65 ° for the curves 46a and 46b, 85 ° for curves 48a and 48b.
  • the radiation according to xOz is relatively identical for all the values of ⁇ .
  • the radiation in the xOy plane has a different shape according to the value of ⁇ , and in particular the preferential radiation direction of the antenna array is variable.
  • the antenna array can thus be reconfigured to modify its radiation without the need to physically intervene on the arrangement of the antennas, but only by modifying the ⁇ phase shift value of each alignment with respect to the other alignments.
  • the antenna array can thus be reconfigured over an angular range of 60 °, as can be seen in FIG.
  • figure 11 only configurations between 90 ° and 120 ° being represented, configurations with negative ⁇ values make it possible to obtain radiations symmetrical with respect to the axis Oy, the angular range then being between 60 ° and 120 °.
  • the amplitudes of the antenna power supply can be weighted to optimize the radiation patterns, in particular so as to avoid the appearance of important side lobes in case of strong misalignment of the antennas.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiments described.
  • the characteristics of the different embodiments of the antennas can be combined, and the antenna arrays can be formed of antennas according to any one of the antenna embodiments.

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