WO1997035358A1 - Lentille compacte a ondes millimetriques, a balayage electronique et de faible cout et procede correspondant - Google Patents

Lentille compacte a ondes millimetriques, a balayage electronique et de faible cout et procede correspondant Download PDF

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WO1997035358A1
WO1997035358A1 PCT/US1997/004390 US9704390W WO9735358A1 WO 1997035358 A1 WO1997035358 A1 WO 1997035358A1 US 9704390 W US9704390 W US 9704390W WO 9735358 A1 WO9735358 A1 WO 9735358A1
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    • H01Q19/00—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic
    • H01Q19/06—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using refracting or diffracting devices, e.g. lens
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  • the present invention relates generally to the transmission of electromagnetic 15 waves, and more particularly, to a low cost, compact, electronically scanned, millimeter wave (MMW) lens and method for directing an electromagnetic beam at millimeter wave frequencies, with very low losses, without requiring mechanical movement of the lens.
  • MMW millimeter wave
  • MMW antennas that operate at frequencies equal to or greater than 35 GHz use either a mechanical scanning approach or phase shifters for electronic steering. Phase shifters that operate at MMW frequencies are costly and introduce considerable RF losses. Mechanically steered antennas contain moving parts; are slow 5 in response; and can be sensitive to shock and vibration. For this reason different beamforrning antennas were investigated. Although most beamformers excel in one category, for example, greater scan range or bandwidth, only the Rotman lens offers a good compromise in performance for most categories. For example, see the following references: Y.T. Lo andS. W. Lee, Antenna Handbook: Theory, Appications and Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, N.Y., 1988; P.S. Hall and S. J.
  • Rotman lenses have been implemented with microstrip or stripline technology, which limits their use to between 6 and 18 GHz.
  • the present invention enables the use of Rotman lenses at frequencies greater than approximately 18 GHz, especially in the millimeter wave region between 30 and 100 GHz.
  • Millimeter Wave (MMW) components are compact and well suited for integration into missile seeker heads, smart munitions, automobile collision avoidance systems, and synthetic vision systems. In these applications, low cost, rapid inertialess scanning of the antenna is desirable.
  • the present invention provides for a low cost, compact, electronically scanned m meter wave lens, using a Rotman lens, that allows efficient operation in the Ka band and higher frequency range, thus, allowing the economical production of an electronically scanned lens that operates at frequencies as high as 95 GHz.
  • the lens of the present invention is implemented using waveguide technology.
  • the preferred embodiment of the lens is a two piece structure that consists of two symmetrical parallel plates, or lens halves, having waveguide ports distributed around the periphery of the plates.
  • a first lens half contains impedance matching structures as is known in the art.
  • a second lens half includes a rectangular aperture in each waveguide coupler that contains a millimeter wave energy absorber designed to terminate millimeter wave energy at the difference port of the forward folded hybrid tee coupler, as is known in the art.
  • Beam-forming, or beam ports are located on one side of each lens half. These ports are fed by a switch array that provides the input MMW energy to the beam ports of the present invention. The array ports are located on the opposite side of each lens half, each connected to an antenna element.
  • the array ports transfer the MMW energy to the antenna elements.
  • a specially shaped internal cavity formed into each lens half, provides a transmission medium which electromagnetically couples the beam ports to the array ports.
  • the shape of the internal cavity dictates the beam and array port contours.
  • the waveguide cavities of both the beam ports and the array ports are tapered, with the wider end in commumcation with the specially shaped internal cavity.
  • the waveguide taper at the cavity boundary provides a better impedance match between the waveguides and the internal cavity.
  • the beam and array ports, or waveguides are designed with a symmetric power divider longitudinally placed in the center of each waveguide.
  • This symmetric power divider extends longitudinally along the length of the waveguide.
  • This symmetric power divider creates parallel waveguide cavities that are smaller than Vi of the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave passing through the waveguide, and therefore, significantly reduces electromagnetic coupling into higher order modes at adjacent waveguide ports and, thus, also reduces the sidelobe radiation of the main electromagnetic beam.
  • MMW energy absorbing material These blocks are shaped so as to absorb and minimize the amount of electromagnetic energy reflected from the sidewalls of each lens half.
  • the sidewalls of the preferred embodiment are triangular in shape so as to minimize and contain reflected multipath energy by confining the multipath energy within the triangular shaped sidewall region.
  • MMW electromagnetic energy input into a specific beam port, will emerge from all array ports and produce a beam along a particular direction. Switching the input from beam port to beam port will steer the beam electronically in one dimension.
  • a complete antenna system requires that the lens be connected to a switch network and an array of antenna elements (in this case, horn antennas).
  • This switch network and antenna system is not part of the present invention, and therefore, will not be discussed in detail.
  • the invention has numerous advantages, a few of which are delineated hereafter, as merely examples.
  • An advantage of the low cost, compact electronically scanned MMW lens is that it operates in the Ka and higher frequency band, thus extending the capabilities of a steerable Rotman lens antenna to the millimeter wave region.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that it can be fabricated from metallized plastic, thus reducing cost.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that it has very low losses in the mUlimeter wave region compared to a Rotman lens constructed using microstrip or stripline technology .
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that the symmetric power dividers allow for the superior reduction of sidelobe energy associated with a directed electromagnetic beam.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that it can function as a low loss power divider that can be used as a feed for other antennas.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is that it is simple in design, reliable in operation, and its design lends itself to economical mass production in plastic or other inexpensive materials.
  • FIG. 1 is an isometric view of the preferred embodiment of the electronically scanned lens of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a computer aided design view of a first lens half depicting the interior cavity and the beam and array waveguide apertures of the present invention
  • Fig. 3 is a detail view of the waveguide apertures and symmetric power dividers of a second lens half of the present invention
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic view of an electronically scanned lens depicting the beam port contour and the array port contour of a straight sidewall lens design
  • Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the computed MMW lens beam patterns of the straight sidewall lens design of Fig. 3;
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic view of an electronically scanned lens depicting the beam port contour, the array port contour, and illustrates the triangular sidewall design of the present invention
  • Fig. 7 is a view illustrating the computed MMW lens beam patterns of the triangular sidewall lens design of Fig. 5;
  • Fig. 8 is a view showing the reflection coefficients for a flat and a corrugated absorber of Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 9 is a view illustrating the computed beam patterns resulting from port widths greater than ⁇ g /2;
  • Fig. 10 is a view illustrating the measured beam patterns for the MMW lens of the present invention at 32.8GHz;
  • Fig. 11 is a view illustrating the measured beam patterns for the MMW lens of the present invention at 36.8GHz;
  • Fig. 12 is a view illustrating the measured insertion loss for all K beam ports of the lens of Fig. 1 at 32.8 GHz;
  • FIG. 1 shown is an isometric view of the preferred embodiment of the Rotman lens of the present invention.
  • the preferred embodiment is comprised of a first lens half 11 and a second lens half 12. When mated, the lens halves form beam waveguides 14 and array waveguides 16.
  • FIG. 2 shown is a view of a first lens half 11 depicting the interior cavity 12, the tapered beam waveguides 14 and the tapered array waveguides 16 of the present invention.
  • first and second lens halves are complementary to each other, and differ only with the addition of an additional port in each waveguide coupler of second lens half 12 as is shown in Fig. 3, and impedance matching structures 18 within the waveguides of first lens half 11, the following discussion will refer only to second lens half 12. The following discussion, however, is equally applicable to first lens half 11, with the exception of the discussion of termination port 17.
  • Rectangular beam waveguides 14 and array waveguides 16 are used to route the electromagnetic energy between beam ports 24 and array ports 26 through lens cavity 12. Impedance is matched within the array waveguides 16 and beam waveguides 14 by the placement of impedance matching structures 18 as is known in the art.
  • Fig. 3 shows a detail view of the waveguides within second lens half 12 of the present invention.
  • the waveguide detail shown in Fig. 2 is equally applicable to either the tapered beam waveguides 14, or the tapered array waveguides 16.
  • Symmetric power divider 21 divides the waveguide into equal sections, each having a dimension of ⁇ g /2, or less and will be discussed in detail hereafter.
  • Termination port 17 is located in array waveguide 16 and beam waveguide 14 of second lens half 12, and is designed to include an absorber for terminating millimeter wave energy.
  • a mathematical description of the N-port device can be obtained in terms of a scattering matrix (S-matrix), which relates the complex- valued amplitudes of input and output signals at a single frequency.
  • S-matrix scattering matrix
  • the amount of output waveguide mode produced in the m-th port can be determined from the S-matrix.
  • the S-matrix may be processed further to obtain lens performance parameters such as beam sidelobe levels, insertion loss, and amplitude as well as phase variations at the antenna element array ports.
  • the integral equation is essentially equivalent to Maxwell's equations and is used to rigorously inco ⁇ orate all electromagnetic effects, such as mutual coupling and higher order modes, associated with the lens interactions.
  • the discrete form of the integral equation can be rewritten in matrix form, producing a generalized scattering matrix.
  • the generalized S-matrix contains information about the primary (dominant) waveguide modes, as well as higher-order waveguide modes and is defined as follows:
  • Each element of the generalized S-matrix above may be determined by using an integral equation that constrains the waveguide aperture fields around the lens periphery.
  • the integral equation imposes the consistency condition that the total magnetic field in aperture p must be the same as the superposition of the radiated magnetic fields produced there by the various modes of all other waveguide apertures (including aperture p).
  • p is an index and can be any aperture.
  • the higher-order modes excited in the apertures of the various ports do not propagate beyond the tapered transition to a single-mode waveguide.
  • these modes carry no net energy away from the lens, and can be eliminated from the generalized S-matrix by a procedure that accounts for their presence, whereby the generalized scattering matrix of order NM is reduced to an ordinary N by N scattering matrix, where N is the total number of ports.
  • the reference planes associated with the resulting S-matrix can be shifted to other desired locations along the waveguides to compare the computed values with experimental data.
  • a typical lens design is initiated by solving the Rotman equations, which can be found in W. Rotman and R.F. Turner, Wide Angle Lens for Line Source Applications, IEEE Trans. Ant. Propogation. Vol. AP-11, pp.623-632, November 1963.
  • the output contains, among other quantities, the x, y coordinates for the positions of the tapered beam waveguides 14 and the tapered array waveguides 16.
  • the input parameters for the lens are the number of array elements (34), number of beams (19), element spacing
  • ⁇ is the wavelength in air at 37 GHz
  • ⁇ g is the guided wavelength within the lens at 37 GHz.
  • the Rotman lens design has three perfect foci located at 0° and the maximum scan angles. In between these angles the foci are not perfect, which means that the path lengths from a particular beam port 24 to the emerging wavefront are not equal.
  • An increase in the focal length will generally decrease the path length errors, but at the expense of increasing the lens size.
  • the focal length was selected so that the design path length errors were ⁇ 2.0°. This choice provided a lens size of about 15 by 11 inches for the preferred embodiment.
  • the Rotman equations output the beam port contour 23 and the array port contour 25, but does not yield any information about the waveguide type and orientation, or the configuration of sidewall 28 that joins the beam contour 23 to the array contour 25. Because they will affect the sidelobes of the antenna beam patterns, these components are crucial to lens performance.
  • sidewall 28 is lined with dummy ports or an absorber 32 to attenuate spill-over energy.
  • Absorber 32 is typically a carbon loaded material, such as the carbon impregnated foam designated as AEMI-20 and manufactured by Advanced Electromagnetics, Inc. in Santee, Ca., that absorbs electromagnetic energy. Other MMW absorbing material may be used and may be preferable at higher transmit powers if it can absorb the energy without overheating.
  • FIG. 4 shown is a schematic view of an electronically scanned lens 40 depicting the beam port contour 23 and the array port contour 25. This view is shown to illustrate the degenerative effect on the primaiy path 48 of the direct MMW energy beam introduced by straight sidewalls 46.
  • Primary path 48 is the main electromagnetic MMW energy beam emanating from the interior end of beam waveguide 14. A portion of the energy from beam waveguide 14 is radiated to the sidewall. This side radiated energy reflects off of straight sidewall 46 in a secondary path 49 causing the effect of multipath interference with primary path 48.
  • the large path difference between primary path 48 and secondary path 49 leads to rapidly oscillating amplitude and phase ripples along the array ports 26 that yield large far-out sidelobes.
  • Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the computed main electromagnetic MMW energy beam 51 and the far-out sidelobes 52. It can be seen that an unacceptable level of -15 db of sidelobe relative to the main beam is present.
  • Fig. 6 shown is a schematic view of an electronically scanned lens 60 depicting the beam port contour 23, the array port contour 25 and the triangular shaped sidewall 64 design of the present invention.
  • Far-out sidelobes 52 illustrated in Fig. 5 can be eliminated via the incorporation of triangluar shaped sidewalls 64 joining beam port contour 23 to array port contour 25.
  • Fig. 7 is a view of the computed MMW lens beam pattern of the present invention using the triangular shaped sidewall design.
  • sidelobes 52 are at least -30 db down relative to main beam 51. Sidelobe 52 reduction is possible because the triangular shaped sidewall 64 design redirects and confines the multipath energy 49 within the triangular shaped sidewall region.
  • Sidewall absorber 32 was selected on the basis of low reflection coefficients.
  • Fig. 8 shown are the reflection coefficient curves for a flat absorber 82 and a corrugated absorber 84.
  • the measured reflection coefficients are shown as a function of frequency. Both the incident and reflection angle was 0°.
  • the upper curve 72 was produced by a flat absorber surface. Lower reflection coefficients i.e., ⁇ -35 dB between 33 and 37 GHz were measured for a corrugated (or egg-crate) surface. Even lower coefficients ( ⁇ 40 dB) were observed when the angle between the incident and reflected rays was greater than 0°. For this reason, the corrugated surface absorber 84 was inco ⁇ orated into this preferred embodiment.
  • both the tapered beam waveguides 14 and the tapered array waveguides 16 expand toward the lens cavity to provide a better impedance match between the waveguides and the lens cavity 12.
  • the point of maximum expansion at the waveguide lens cavity interface 22 must be restricted to less than ⁇ g /2 where ⁇ g is the guided wavelength at the upper design frequency (37
  • FIG. 9 is a view illustrating the computed beam patterns 90 resulting from port widths greater than ⁇ J2. As can be seen, sidelobes 92 in excess of -15 dB are observed. This problem was solved by splitting each port into two and by combining the two split ports at the output.
  • symmetric power dividers 21 extend longitudinally from the wide tapered end of array waveguide 16 to die narrow tapered end of array waveguide 16. While Fig. 3 depicts tapered array waveguides 16, symmetric power dividers 21 are also present in the tapered beam waveguides 14. Placement of symmetric power dividers 21 in the array waveguides 16 and beam waveguides 14 results in waveguide dimensions smaller than ⁇ g /2, thus reducing phase and amplitude ripples at the array ports, resulting in reduced close-in sidelobe energy. Referring back to Fig. 7, shown are the computed beam patterns 50 resulting from this design, which included a triangular sidewall. As can be seen, in relation to the main electromagnetic MMW energy beams 51, sidelobes 52 are reduced to a level 30 db below the peak of the main beam 51.
  • Fig. 14 shown is a profile view of an alternate embodiment of the waveguide used in the present invention.
  • the inco ⁇ oration of double ridged waveguide 140 for beam waveguide 14 and array waveguide 16 allows a much larger bandwidth for this embodiment.
  • the double ridged waveguide allows the effective aperture of the waveguide to remain smaller than ⁇ g /2 at the highest frequency of interest, while eliminating the need for symmetric power dividers because of the increased bandwidth.
  • the tapered beam waveguides 14 are energized with millimeter waves from a switch array that is not part of the present invention.
  • the energy is conducted through the tapered beam waveguides 14 and projected into internal cavity 12.
  • Internal cavity 12 conducts the energy to the corresponding tapered array waveguides 16.
  • the energy is then conducted to an antenna array element that is not part of the present invention.
  • the antenna element array produces an energy beam along a particular direction. By switching the input among tapered beam waveguides 14, the energy beam can be electronically steered along one dimension, resulting in an inertialess MMW electronically steered lens.
  • the S-matrix was processed further to determine the beam patterns and insertion loss of the lens.
  • the beam patterns were determined with Equation 2
  • K denotes a specific beam port.
  • 0 K /( ⁇ ) is the phase that must be added to the £ ⁇ array port to determine the power radiated in a particular direction ⁇ due to the excitation of the K beam port. 0 K ,( ⁇ ) is given by
  • d is the distance from the center of the antenna array to the t antenna element.
  • the w are the components of a Taylor weighting function to suppress the sidelobes.
  • the Taylor function was configured to yield -40 dB sidelobes for an ideal beam pattern.
  • the resultant ou ⁇ ut is a series of plots as a function of the scan angle ⁇ . Each plot corresponds to the excitation of one beam port. Referring to Figs. 10 and 11 respectively, shown are the beam patterns computed in this manner at 32.8 GHz and 36.8 GHz using the measured S-matrix components of the MMW lens. As can be seen, each pattern contains the main lobes 102, 112, that are associated with the various beam ports, plus the supe ⁇ osition of all sidelobes 104 114 from all K beam patterns.
  • a visual inspection shows a maximum sidelobe level of ⁇ -30 dB 106, 116.
  • the insertion loss also derived from the S-parameters, is given by Equation 5.
  • ⁇ -lOlog ⁇ p (5) e represents the power at the £ ⁇ array port due to the K beam port.
  • Figs. 12 and 13 respectively, shown is the measured insertion loss at 32.8 and 36.8 GHz for all K beam ports.
  • the losses range between 0.8 and 2.3 dB.
  • the Rotman lens of the present invention operates as a new low loss power divider that can be used as a feed for other antennas.
  • the beam for this feed is stationary and is not scanned.

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Lentille compacte à ondes millimétriques, à balayage électronique et de faible coût, permettant de projeter un faisceau fortement directif d'énergie électromagnétique à ondes millimétriques en bande Ka et ne nécessitant aucun déplacement mécanique de la lentille. La présente invention permet de produire de façon économique et de faire fonctionner, grâce à la technologie des guides d'ondes, une lentille en bande de fréquence Ka et supérieures. Les guides d'ondes (14, 16) de la présente invention s'effilent en longueur, de sorte qu'une partie plus large du guide d'ondes reste en communication électromagnétique avec la cavité intérieure (12) de la lentille. Le rétrécissement progressif du guide d'ondes améliore l'adaptation d'impédance entre les guides d'ondes et la cavité de la lentille. Les guides d'ondes incluent également des répartiteurs de puissance (21) symétriques situés dans le sens de la longueur à l'intérieur de l'ouverture des guides d'ondes, ce qui permet d'obtenir une largeur de lumière inférieure à μg/2; les composantes de mode indésirables se voient ainsi réduits ou éliminés, diminuant à leur tour l'énergie des lobes latéraux. Par conséquent, on obtient un faisceau orientable d'énergie à ondes millimétriques, à pertes réduites et à lobes latéraux peu élevés.
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