WO2001063694A1 - Common aperture reflector antenna with improved feed design - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to an antenna, and more particularly to a common-aperture antenna with a high-efficiency feed and a method for designing the same.
- Common aperture antennas are generally known.
- U. S. Patent No. 5,21 4,438 describes a millimeter wave and infrared sensor in a common receiving aperture.
- Millimeter wave (MMW) energy is useful under adverse weather conditions.
- the resolution is not as precise as exhibited by optical systems operating in the infrared (IR) region.
- IR infrared
- Target acquisition can be substantially improved by combining millimeter wave and infrared optical signals, substantially reducing the influence of climatic conditions.
- IR and MMW are also susceptible to known countermeasures of various kinds and therefore a combined aperture system is less susceptible to a single type of countermeasure.
- a prime-focus reflector antenna design may have an abnormally large amount of central blockage (much larger than the feed would normally induce) created by another part of the overall system. In such a situation, it is left to the antenna designer to maximize the reflector antenna performance in the presence of this blockage.
- an IR sensor within the common aperture antenna may share the same main reflector surface as an RF (microwave or millimeter wave) reflector antenna.
- the reflector configuration is often dictated by the more stringent IR system requirements. This typically has an adverse affect on the performance of the RF system. That is to say what is advantageous for the IR system is typically not what is advantageous for the RF system.
- the feed includes an array of individual elements.
- the array elements are configured to increase the overall efficiency of a reflector antenna by flattening the aperture illumination, and also by nullifying the illumination within the centrally-blocked-portion of the reflector antenna surface. More specifically, the array elements are carefully configured with respect to spacing and excitation, for example, such that the array illuminates only the non-blocked portion of the main reflector. In addition, the array pattern is optimized such that the non-blocked portion of the reflector antenna is quasi-uniformly illuminated.
- a common aperture reflector antenna includes a main reflector having a generally parabolic reflective surface and a boresight axis extending from a vertex of the main reflector through a focal point of the main reflector.
- the antenna includes a feed located generally at the focal point for illuminating the main reflector with and/or receiving from the main reflector radio frequency (RF) energy of a predefined RF wavelength to transmit/receive RF energy; and at least one of a sub-reflector and a sensor located generally at the focal point for reflecting or receiving energy of a predefined wavelength different from the predefined RF wavelength.
- RF radio frequency
- a blockage of the main reflector due to the sub- reflector or the sensor along the boresight axis is equal or greater than a blockage of the main reflector due to the feed.
- the feed is configured to direct a majority of RF energy from the feed towards regions of the main reflector which are not blocked by the sub-reflector or the sensor.
- a method for designing such an antenna.
- the method includes the steps of selecting an initial estimate for a feed array making up the feed on a basis of blockage of the main reflector due to the sub-reflector or the sensor and at least one of a number of array elements, spacing of the array elements, amplitude excitation of the array elements, diameter of the main reflector and focal length of the main reflector; evaluating a performance of the feed array based on the initial estimate; computing a figure of merit indicative of the RF efficiency of the antenna based on the evaluated performance; and optimizing the RF efficiency by altering the initial estimate and reevaluating the performance and figure of merit.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a common aperture reflector antenna in accordance with the exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic side view of the antenna of Fig. 1
- Fig. 3 is a front view of an exemplary feed array in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 4A is an estimated E-plane pattern for the feed array of Fig. 3
- Fig. 4B is an estimated E-plane pattern for an antenna incorporating the feed array of Fig. 3;
- Fig. 5 is a front view of a feed array in accordance with a comparative example
- Fig. 6A is an estimated E-plane pattern for the feed array of Fig. 5; and Fig. 6B is an estimated E-plane pattern for an antenna incorporating the feed array of Fig. 5.
- the antenna 1 0 includes a main reflector 1 2 having a surface 1 4 which is reflective to both microwave/millimeterwave RF energy and infrared (IR) energy.
- the main reflector 1 2 has a circular aperture with a diameter D as shown in Fig. 1 .
- the main reflector is parabolic or quasi-parabolic in cross- section, with a focal point FP located at a focal length F from a vertex 1 6 of the main reflector 1 2.
- a boresight axis 1 8 of the antenna 1 0 extends from the vertex 1 6 of the main reflector 1 2 through the focal point FP and is thus directed towards a target of interest during use.
- the antenna 1 0 further includes an RF feed 20 located generally at the focal point FP of the main reflector 1 2.
- the RF feed 20 is positioned such that in the case of transmitting an RF signal, the RF feed 20 illuminates the main reflector 1 2 with RF energy in order that the RF energy is reflected by the main reflector 1 2 along the boresight axis 1 8 towards the target (not shown).
- the RF feed is positioned so as to receive the RF energy reflected theretowards by the main reflector 1 2.
- IR sub-reflector 22 is located approximately at the focal point FP in between the main reflector 1 2 and the RF feed 20.
- an IR sub-reflector 22 may be made of a dichroic element which reflects IR energy yet transmits RF energy.
- the IR sub-reflector 22 reflects IR energy received from the main reflector 1 2 to an IR sensor 24 located generally at the vertex 1 6 of the main reflector 1 2.
- the I R-sub-ref lector 24 allows RF energy to pass therethrough between the RF sensor 20 and the main reflector 1 2.
- a third sensor 26, such as a laser radar system, is mounted in front of the RF feed 20 as shown is in Fig. 2.
- the third sensor 26 may, from necessity, have a relatively large diameter compared to the RF feed 20 and the IR sub-reflector 24.
- One or more struts 28 serve to support the IR sub-reflector 22, the RF feed 20 and/or the third sensor 26.
- the antenna 1 0 may include only one of the IR sub-reflector 22/IR sensor 24 and the third sensor 26 without departing from the scope of the invention.
- the RF feed 20, IR sub-reflector 24 and/or the third sensor 26 present an overall blockage 30 with respect to RF energy having a maximum diameter b relative to the main reflector 1 2.
- the blockage 30 serves to create a blocked region 32 on the surface of the main reflector 1 2.
- Such blocked region 32 is shown as being projected by the maximum diameter b of the blockage 30 onto the main reflector 1 2 along the boresight axis 1 8.
- the struts 28 also serve to impose blockage on the main reflector 1 2, as will be appreciated.
- Non-blocked regions 34 of the main reflector 1 2 surround the blocked region 32.
- Figs. 1 and 2 ordinarily will not be optimal from an RF standpoint.
- several aspects of the design can substantially degrade the RF system performance.
- the paraboloidal shape of the main reflector 1 2 may not necessarily be optimal for the most efficient RF performance.
- Specially shaped main reflectors for use in Cassegrain systems can be used to substantially increase the RF antenna gain.
- the use of an IR sub-reflector 22 between the RF feed 20 and main reflector 1 2 can induce a phase error on the RF wave.
- This phase error has the potential of degrading the RF antenna performance.
- the location of the IR sensor 24 and the relatively large diameter third sensor 26 imposes an unusually large amount of central blockage 30 for the RF system.
- the energy from the RF feed 20 impinging on the central region of the main reflector 1 2 is essentially wasted because it is blocked and/or scattered by the IR sensor 24/sub-reflector 22 and/or third sensor 26.
- This blockage will ordinarily degrade the RF gain and increase the sidelobe levels.
- Such problems are complicated even further if the RF system is required to be monopulse as in the exemplary embodiment. For this a total of four sets of feeds are required for the RF system.
- an exemplary case may have a main reflector 1 2 with a diameter D (Fig. 1 ) equal to 8 ⁇ , where ⁇ is the wavelength of the desired RF operating frequency.
- the focal length F (Fig. 2) is on the order of 3 ⁇ and the diameter of blockage b (Fig. 2) is on the order of 3 ⁇ . Consequently, a large portion 32 of the center of the main reflector 1 2 is blocked (e.g., a diameter on the order of 30% to 40% of the diameter D of the main reflector 1 2).
- the present invention overcomes many of such limitations by virtue of a specially configured RF feed 20.
- the RF feed 20 is made up of an array of feed elements.
- Fig. 3 illustrates a monopulse RF feed 20 having an array 38 of feed elements 40.
- the array 38 in accordance with the present invention is configured to illuminate substantially only the non-blocked portion or portions 34 of the main reflector 1 2 (See Fig. 2). In doing so, RF energy is not wasted on the blocked portion 32 of the main reflector 1 2. As is explained more fully below, this is done by creating an RF feed 20 with a feed pattern that has a "hole" in its middle.
- the array 38 preferably is configured to flatten the RF energy illumination on the main reflector 1 2.
- reflector antenna design there is typically a tradeoff between illumination efficiency and spillover loss.
- a flatter illumination may require spilling over more energy over the rim of the main reflector.
- maximum gain or efficiency is obtained with an approximate -1 1 dB main reflector rim illumination (relative to the illumination of the center of the main reflector). This results in poor aperture efficiency and a spillover of approximately 1 0% of the feed energy.
- This scenario can be improved with the use of a Cassegrain system employing a sub-reflector.
- the sub and main reflector shapes can be tuned such that the illumination taper is essentially 0 dB with very little spillover. Since a Cassegrain is not possible for the above common aperture system, this efficient way of feeding the main reflector is not possible.
- the main reflector 1 2 illumination can be flattened, thereby optimizing the aperture efficiency.
- the array feed 20 radiation can also be made to drop-off rapidly at the rim of the main reflector 1 2, reducing the spillover loss.
- the phasing between the array elements 40 can be modified to correct for any phase errors induced by the semi-transparent IR sub-reflector 22.
- the inventors in the present application constructed and tested an antenna 1 0 in accordance with the principles of the invention.
- the antenna 1 0 was designed for operation at a millimeterwave frequency of 35 Gigahertz (GHz).
- RT DuroidTM 6002 as the substrate 42 for the patch array 38 (which has a dielectric constant of 2.94) required square patch elements 40 that were approximately .090" on edge, which allowed a 4x4 array of patch elements 40 to be used ( 1 6 total) within the 1 " diameter feed region.
- the excitation and spacing of each patch element 40 in the 1 6 element array 38 was optimized for maximum reflector antenna efficiency using physical optics as is discussed in more detail below.
- the resultant optimized array spacing and desired input voltages for each patch are shown in Fig. 3 and represented by the following 4x4 matrix with the corresponding amplitude and phase of each element 40:
- the outer 1 2 patch elements 40 around the periphery of the array 38 are to be fed 1 80 degrees out-of-phase relative to the central four patch elements 40.
- the respective quadrants formed by lines 46 in Fig. 3 delineate the corresponding groups which are commonly fed for monopulse operation.
- the aperture array distribution as defined in Fig. 3 was obtained.
- a stripline arithmetic circuit layer was used to generate the sum and difference patterns for monopulse tracking.
- the details for forming a patch array and providing the appropriate amplitude and phase differences are well known in the art, and hence will not be discussed herein for sake of brevity.
- the predicted sum channel pattern of this optimized array 38 is shown in Fig. 4A for the E-plane.
- the pattern of the array 38 is optimized such that the majority of the feed energy from the RF feed 20 is directed toward the non-blocked regions 34 of the main reflector 1 2.
- each of the non- blocked regions 34 exhibit peaks 50 which exceed any peak or peaks in the blocked region 32.
- the central region 32 of the main reflector 1 2, which is blocked by the diameter b, is severely attenuated. In fact, very little RF feed energy is spilled-over the outer rim of the main reflector 1 2 or is wasted in the central blocked region 32.
- the illumination function in the non-blocked regions 34 of the parabolic reflector 1 2 is quasi-uniform (at an angle of about 40 degrees) . It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that if a larger number of array elements 40 were used, this illumination function could be flattened further.
- the voltage excitation for the patch elements 40 was permitted to be complex during optimization, but the optimization yielded real excitation values. It is believed that this resulted from the array face being coincident with the paraboloid focal plane as shown in Fig. 2.
- the predicted H-plane pattern for the feed 20 was substantially similar to that of the E-plane.
- measured E and H-plane patterns for the feed 20 corresponded closely with the predicted values.
- Fig. 4B shows the predicted sum channel E-plane pattern of the 2.7" diameter reflector antenna 1 0 when fed with the optimized array feed 20 of Fig. 3. Note that the peak gain is 25.5 dBi which corresponds to a 56% efficiency relative to the area of the 2.7" diameter main reflector 1 2. Again, the measured E and H-plane patterns for the antenna 10 closely followed the predicted results.
- Fig. 5 shows a 4-patch array having four elements 40 which has been used in the past to feed a reflector antenna. This array has been optimized for maximum gain when feeding the 2.7" diameter common aperture reflector 1 2 as described above. Each patch element 40 is fed with voltages of equal amplitude and phase. The sum E-plane pattern of this array is shown in Fig. 6A. It will be noted from Fig. 6A that a good portion of the feed energy is wasted on the blocked central region 32 of the reflector antenna. This blockage has a detrimental effect on the gain and pattern of the reflector antenna as is shown in Fig. 6B.
- the RF feed 20 is designed and optimized according to the following technique.
- the design and optimization of the feed array 38 making up the RF feed 20 is accomplished using a physical optics analysis computer program or code, taking into account the effect of the blocked region 32 of the main reflector 1 2.
- a physical optics analysis computer program or code such physical optics analysis is discussed in detail in W. V. T Rusch,. and P. D. Potter, Analysis of Reflector Antennas, Academic Press, New York, 1 970, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- the antenna 1 0 is modeled as shown in Fig. 2.
- diameter D and focal length F is blocked by a structure of diameter b.
- diameter b may be as a result of the RF feed 20, IR sub- reflector 22 and/or third sensor 26, whichever is largest.
- the array feed 20 is assumed to be mounted on the underside of the blockage 30 at a distance from the main reflector vertex 1 6.
- microstrip patch elements 40 are used as the elements of the feed array.
- the RF feed 20 may be made up of an array of feed horns, a slotted array, a lens array, etc.
- the present invention includes any such types of arrays without departing from the scope of the invention.
- the optimization process is initiated by selecting a starting guess for the RF feed array configuration (e.g., number of array elements, element spacing and/or element amplitude excitation), with a predefined main reflector diameter D, focal length F, and blockage diameter b.
- a figure of merit is then computed (using the aforementioned physical optics code) that is minimized when the reflector antenna efficiency is maximum.
- a simplex optimization routine is then used which optimizes the array element spacing and excitation by minimizing the figure of merit. (See, e.g., G. Dahlquist, Numerical Methods, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1 974, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference). Note that the amplitude excitation of the array elements in this optimization are complex— the magnitude and phase of each element is optimized.
- the present invention provides a common aperture antenna and method of making the same which maximizes antenna efficiency.
- the invention utilizes a specially configured antenna array as the prime-focus feed. By carefully configuring the array elements (spacing and excitation), the array illuminates only the non-blocked portion of the main reflector. In addition, the array pattern is optimized such that the non-blocked portion of the reflector antenna is quasi-uniformly illuminated.
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