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  • Improvement of Beam Scanning Characteristics of a Dielectric Lens Antenna by Array Feeds

    Yousuke TAJIMA  Yoshihide YAMADA  

     
    PAPER

      Vol:
    E91-A No:7
      Page(s):
    1616-1624

    In the Intelligent Transportation System, millimeter waves are used and antennas are required beam scanning ability. In the millimeter wave operation, a lens antenna is one of the prominent candidates which achieves wide angle beam scanning. Wide angle scanning can be achieved by introducing Abbe sine condition to lens surface shaping. Authors designed the shaped lens antenna that could achieve beam scanning 30. The narrow beam widths were maintained on the scanning plane. However, the beam widths were broadened on the transverse plane and large gain reduction was appeared. It was clarified that the reason of this beam deterioration was due to the phase delay on the antenna aperture. In this paper, an array feed composed of a group of rectangular horns is employed to compensate the phase delay on the antenna aperture. In designing the array feed, because there were no examples of phase radiation pattern synthesis, a new radiation pattern synthesis method is studied. Ability of the weighting matrix contained in the Least Mean Square synthesis method is paid attention. Adequate weighting matrix is found out. Satisfactory phase radiation pattern that can compensate the phase delay and an adequate amplitude radiation pattern are achieved. As a result, the improvement of scanned beam widths and antenna gains through the array feed are ensured. And adequate horn arrangements of the array feed for improving scanned beam are clarified. Moreover, in order to examine the realization of an actual array feed, the exact electromagnetic simulation is conducted. The validity of the radiation pattern synthesis is clarified.

  • Scattering of a Gaussian Beam by Dielectric Cylinders with Arbitrary Shape Using Multigrid-Moment Method

    Mitsuhiro YOKOTA  Kunihiro AOYAMA  

     
    PAPER-Numerical Techniques, Computational Electromagnetic

      Vol:
    E90-C No:2
      Page(s):
    258-264

    Scattering of a Gaussian beam by dielectric cylinders with arbitrary shape is analyzed by using the moment method combined with multigrid method. The effectiveness of the multigrid-moment method is firstly shown from the CPU time and residual norm viewpoints. The effect of the initial value for the multigrid cycle is also considered. After that, the scattered fields by two dielectric convex lens are calculated and the effect of the radius of curvature, width and the distance between each lens on the scattered field is examined.

  • A NRD Guide Fed Dielectric Lens Antenna with High Gain and Low Sidelobe Characteristics

    Takashi SHIMIZU  Tsukasa YONEYAMA  

     
    LETTER-Active Circuits & Antenna

      Vol:
    E88-C No:7
      Page(s):
    1385-1386

    A NRD guide fed dielectric lens antenna with high gain and low sidelobe characteristics is proposed for millimeter wave applications. The measured results showed very good performance at 60 GHz. It exhibited a gain of 24.9 dBi, 27 dB sidelobe level suppression.

  • Calculation of Wide Angle Radiation Patterns and Caustics of a Dielectric Lens Antenna by a Ray Tracing Method

    Yousuke TAJIMA  Yoshihide YAMADA  Seigo SASAKI  Atsushi KEZUKA  

     
    PAPER-Antennas, Circuits and Receivers

      Vol:
    E87-C No:9
      Page(s):
    1432-1440

    Recently, dielectric lens antennas are paid attentions in ITS applications. Many lens shape designing methods were already developed. And electrical performances were estimated through a ray tracing method. Here, arbitral lens shapes were expressed by a system of power series. In the case of ray tracing, time-consuming three-coordinate root-finder programs were needed to find intersection points of rays on the lens surfaces. In order to calculate complicated structures such as zoned lenses and complicated rays such as multiple reflections between lens surfaces, simple ray tracing methods are requested. In this paper, a simple ray tracing method that utilizes directly designed discrete points of lens surfaces is developed. In this method, a refracted ray is automatically determined for a given incident ray. As for an intersecting point of a lens surface for an outgoing ray, the nearest point to the refracted vector is found out by employing a simple searching procedure. This method is time-saving compared to the previous three-coordinate root-finding program. Through calculated results of focal points and radiation patterns in wide angle beam steering, effectiveness of a developed method is ensured. Application of the developed ray tracing method of complicated multiple reflections are studied. Reflecting points are found out speedily by the same searching procedure. A calculated example of doubly reflected rays is obtained. Through comparing calculated and measured results of wide angle radiation patterns, effectiveness of a developed method is ensured.