EP0404905A1 - Guide d'onde d'alimentation ameliore pour systeme d'antenne - Google Patents

Guide d'onde d'alimentation ameliore pour systeme d'antenne

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EP0404905A1
EP0404905A1 EP90900491A EP90900491A EP0404905A1 EP 0404905 A1 EP0404905 A1 EP 0404905A1 EP 90900491 A EP90900491 A EP 90900491A EP 90900491 A EP90900491 A EP 90900491A EP 0404905 A1 EP0404905 A1 EP 0404905A1
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Prior art keywords
slot
waveguide
feed
longitudinal axis
feed waveguide
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Louis A. Kurtz
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Raytheon Co
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Hughes Aircraft Co
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or 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
    • H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
    • H01Q21/064—Two dimensional planar arrays using horn or slot aerials
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • 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
    • H01Q13/22—Longitudinal slot in boundary wall of waveguide or transmission line
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/0006—Particular feeding systems
    • H01Q21/0037—Particular feeding systems linear waveguide fed arrays
    • H01Q21/0043—Slotted waveguides
    • H01Q21/005—Slotted waveguides arrays

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to slot array antennas. More specifically, the present invention relates to an improved feed for a slot array antenna.
  • Planar array antennas are used for a wide variety of radar applications.
  • One such planar array antenna is a flat plate antenna.
  • a flat plate antenna is typically a family of coplanar linear arrays each containing a series of resonant slot radiating apertures.
  • Microwave energy is provided to the radiating waveguides by a feed waveguide which is in turn fed by an input waveguide.
  • Slot coupling is a desirable technique for coupling energy from the feed waveguide to the radiating waveguides for most applications.
  • Slot coupling for a single feed, involves communication of energy through a slot in a broadwall of a rectangular feed waveguide and • slots in a broadwall of a rectangular radiating waveguide.
  • Energy is typically provided to the feed waveguide by an input waveguide located at either end of the feed waveguide or somewhere along the length thereof.
  • the location of the input waveguide at the ends of the feed waveguide may limit the bandwidth of the system or be otherwise problematic because of the relative inaccessibil ⁇ ity of the ends of the feed waveguides.
  • the center feeding of the feed waveguide is adjustable ⁇ tic with respect to the location of the input slot of the input waveguide relative to the feed slot of the feed wave ⁇ guide. That is, if, as is common, the input slot and the feed slots are placed on opposite broad walls of the feed waveguide and at one-quarter wavelength spacing down the waveguide, an impedance inversion results on each half of the feed waveguide which must be corrected in the design.
  • a common technique for correcting the impedance inversion involves a design in which coupling slots are at greater angles. Unfortunately, this approach typically results in larger coupling junction phase errors.
  • the improved feed waveguide of the present invention includes first and second slotted parallel walls.
  • the first wall includes a first elongate slot along a first longitudinal axis.
  • the second wall includes a second elongate slot located on the second wall opposite the first slot on the first wall.
  • the second slot has a second longitudinal axis.
  • the invention is adapted to provide a planar array antenna including at least one radiating waveguide having a first broadwall with a first elongate slot therethrough and a first longitudinal axis.
  • a feed waveguide is coupled to the radiating waveguide and has first and second parallel walls along the length thereof.
  • the first wall has a second elongate slot therethrough which is in communication with the first slot in the radiating waveguide.
  • the second slot has a longitudinal axis and is aligned with the slot in the radiating waveguide.
  • a third slot is located in the second wall opposite the second slot in the first wall and has a second longitudinal axis.
  • An input waveguide is coupled to the feed waveguide and includes a broadwall with an elongate slot therethrough.
  • the slot in the input waveguide is in communication with the third slot in the feed waveguide.
  • the slot in the input waveguide has a longitudinal axis aligned with the longitudinal axis of the third slot.
  • the slot in the input waveguide is colocated with the slot in the radiating waveguide and orthogonal thereto. This arrangement mitigates impedance inversion and allows for optimum performance of an array antenna.
  • Fig. 1(a) is an illustrative representation of a top view of a section of a flat plate slot array antenna incorporating the principles of the present invention.
  • Fig. 1(b) is an illustrative representation of a sectional side view of a section of a flat plate slot array antenna incorporating the principles of the present invention.
  • Fig. 1(c) shows a side view of a feed waveguide in a section of a flat plate slot array antenna incorporating the principles of the present invention.
  • Fig. 2(a) shows a prior art feed waveguide wherein the feed waveguide is fed via an input slot on one wall of the waveguide which is located between a series of feed slots which lie on the opposite wall of the feed waveguide.
  • Fig. 2(b) shows a end view of the feed waveguide of
  • Fig. 2(a) shows the present invention feed waveguide wherein the feed waveguide is fed via an input slot on one wall of the feed waveguide and colocated with one of a series of feed slots on the opposite wall of the feed waveguide.
  • Fig. 4 is an expanded view showing the location of an input slot and a colocated feed slot in the feed waveguide of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
  • Fig. 1(a) is a top view of a section of the flat plate slot array antenna 10, incorporating the principles of the present invention.
  • the section of the antenna 10 includes first, second and third radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21, respectively, mounted orthogonal to a feed waveguide 15 in broadwall-to-broadwall relation.
  • Each waveguide may be of conventional fabrication, e.g., metal or other suitably conductive material.
  • the radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21 are spaced along the longitudinal axis of the feed waveguide 15 and coupled thereto by a plurality of inclined slots (shown in phantom) 25, 27 and 29 respectively.
  • the radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21 are spaced so that they lie directly next to one another.
  • each radiating waveguide is rectangular having first and second broadwalls and first and second sidewalls.
  • the second radiating waveguide 19 has first and second broadwalls 35 and 50 and first and second sidewalls 51 and 52.
  • the feed waveguide 15 includes a front broadwall 35, a back broadwall 37 and side walls 46 and 48. (See the end view of Fig. 1(c).)
  • a rectangular input waveguide 23 is mounted on the back broadwall 37 of the feed waveguide 15 and includes a front broadwall 43, a back broadwall 32 and sidewalls 38 and 40.
  • the radiating waveguides 17, 19, and 21 are mounted on the front broadwall 35 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • the feed waveguide 15 is coupled to the radiating waveguides by a plurality of elongate inclined feed slots 25, 27, and 30, in the front broadwall 35 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • Each of the radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21 contains a plurality of radiating slots which receive the energy from the feed slots 25, 27 and 29, respectively.
  • Each of the radiating slots are spaced one-half wavelength from each neighboring radiating slot.
  • the radiating waveguide 17 contains the radiating slots 71, 72, 73, 74, 75 and 76.
  • the radiating waveguide 19 contains the radiating slots 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 82.
  • the radiating waveguide 21 contains the radiating slots 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 and 88.
  • Each of the feed slots 25, 27 and 29 lie equidistant between two radiating slots. Thus, there is a one-quarter wavelength spacing from each feed slot and the closest radiating slot.
  • Each feed slot 25, 27, and 30 is inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis 39 of the feed waveguide 15 and has a longitudinal axis 41, 44, and 45 respectively.
  • the feed slots 25, 27 and 29 are shown in phantom in Fig. 1(a) .
  • the feed waveguide 15 also includes an input slot 32 on the back wall 37 thereof.
  • the input slot 32 is provided by a slot 32f in the feed waveguide 15 and a slot 32 ⁇ in an input waveguide 23.
  • the input slot 32 is also inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis 39 of the feed waveguide 15 and has a longitudinal axis 42.
  • a particularly novel feature of the present invention is the colocation of the input slot 32 with the feed slot 27 along the longitudinal axis 39 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • the colocation of the input slot 32 relative to a feed slot 27 allows for the coupling of energy from the input waveguide 23 to the feed waveguide 15 without an impedance inversion.
  • the colocation of the input slot 32 with a feed slot 27 is permitted by the orthogonal arrangement of the input slot 32 relative to the feed slot 27. That is, the longitudinal axis 42 of the input slot 32 is orthogonal " to the longitudinal axis 44 of the feed slot 27. (This is illustrated more clearly in phantom in Fig. 1(a) .)
  • energy is provided to the feed waveguide 15 by the input waveguide 23 via the slot 32.
  • the feed waveguide 15 then couples the energy to the radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21 via slots 25, 27 and 29 on the broadwall 35.
  • the energy is then radiated to the atmosphere by the radiating waveguides 17, 19 and 21 in a conventional manner.
  • Fig. 2(a) is an illustrative representation of a conventional feed waveguide 15 • which is f d via an input slot 32' located between the ends of the feed waveguide 15'.
  • Fig. 2(b) is a side view of the conventional feed waveguide 15' showing the front and back broadwalls 35' and 37', respectively.
  • the conventional feed waveguide 15' includes a plurality of feed slots 25', 27', 29', on the front broadwall 35' of the feed waveguide 15' inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis 39' thereof and the input slot 32 ' (shown in phantom) on the back broadwall 37' of the feed waveguide 15'.
  • the input slot 32' has a longitudinal axis 70 which is generally normal to the longitudinal axis 39' of the feed waveguide 15' .
  • the two feed slots 25' and 27' are generally separated by a distance of one half of the wavelength of the operating frequency.
  • the input slot 32' is located on the back broadwall 37' of the feed waveguide 15' between two feed slots 25' and 27* on the front broadwall 35' thereof.
  • the input slot 32' is located equidistant between the two feed slots 25' and 27' . There is therefore a one-quarter wavelength spacing between the input slot 32' and each of the two feed slots 25' and 27'.
  • the one-quarter wavelength spacing between the feed slots 25' and 27' and input slot 32' causes a one-quarter wave inversion in the characteristic impedance of the waveguide each half of the feed waveguide 15'. This has previously precluded the ' centerfeeding of feed waveguides for many conventional planar array antennas.
  • an alternate conventional method of feeding the waveguide 15' is via either end of the feed waveguide 15'.
  • the advantage of the design is that impedance inversion is avoided.
  • the location of the input waveguide at the ends of the feed waveguide 15' may limit the bandwidth of the system or be otherwise problematic because of the relative inaccessibility of the ends of the feed waveguide 15* .
  • Fig. 3 is top view of the feed waveguide 15 constructed in .accordance with the principles of the present invention.
  • the input slot 32 is colocated with a feed slot 27 and orthogonal thereto. The is effective to mitigate the impedance inversion. A direct consequence of which is that smaller values of coupling slot angles can be used which, in turn, reduces coupling junction phase errors.
  • the expanded view of Fig. 4 better illustrates the advantageous location of an input slot 32 and a colocated feed slot 27 of a section of a feed waveguide 15 of the present invention.
  • the input slot 32 is shown in phantom to indicate that it is located on the bottom broadwall 37 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • the feed slot 27 is located on the top broadwall 35 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • Both the input slot 32 and the feed slot 27 are inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis 39 of the feed waveguide 15.
  • the input slot 32 has a longitudinal axis 42 which is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis 44 of the feed slot 27.
  • the input slot 32 couples energy from an input waveguide to the feed waveguide 15.
  • the feed slot 27 couples energy from the feed waveguide 15 to a radiating waveguide.

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Abstract

Un guide d'onde d'alimentatiion amélioré (15) pour une antenne (10) réduit les erreurs de phase de jonction de couplage. Le guide d'onde d'alimentation amélioré (15) de la présente invention comprend des première et seconde parois parallèles ajourées (35 et 37) dans le sens longitudinal du guide. La première paroi (35) comprend une première fente allongée (27) ayant un premier axe longitudinal (44). La seconde paroi (37) comprend une seconde fente allongée (32) qui est située sur la seconde paroi (37) opposée à la première fente (27) sur la première paroi (35). La seconde fente (32) possède un axe longitudinal (42) qui est orthogonal à l'axe longitudinal (44) de la première fente (27).
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KR (1) KR920009224B1 (fr)
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IL92766A0 (en) 1990-09-17
KR910700552A (ko) 1991-03-15
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CA2003471A1 (fr) 1990-06-20
WO1990007201A1 (fr) 1990-06-28

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