Design of a highly integrated Ku-band planar broadband phased array receiver with dual polarization

In the paper the development of a fully electronic transmit-receive phased-array antenna system in Ku-band for aircraft communications via satellite is presented. Particular emphasis has been placed in the improvement of the following key elements: a dual-polarization self-diplexing radiating element, a transmit/receive active module with full polarization agility based on a digital vector modulator and a SiGe multinode MMIC. The optimized antenna elements enable a significant improvement towards the realization of a future affordable commercial product for satellite communications.

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A fully integrated 8-channel wide-band receiver for Ku-band dual-polarization phased array in SiGe BiCMOS

2014 9th European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference ◽

10.1109/eumic.2014.6997785 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paul Klatser ◽

Rinus Boot ◽

Gerard Voshaar ◽

Chris Roeloffzen

Keyword(s):

Phased Array ◽

Wide Band ◽

Dual Polarization ◽

Fully Integrated ◽

Sige Bicmos ◽

Ku Band

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A 256-Element Dual-Beam Dual-Polarization Ku-Band Phased-Array with 5 dB/K G/T for Simultaneous Multi-Satellite Reception

10.1109/ims19712.2021.9574973 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gokhan Gultepe ◽

Gabriel M. Rebeiz

Keyword(s):

Phased Array ◽

Dual Polarization ◽

Dual Beam ◽

Ku Band

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A $Ku$-Band Two-Antenna Four-Simultaneous Beams SiGe BiCMOS Phased Array Receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques ◽

10.1109/tmtt.2010.2041586 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 771-780 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Dong-Woo Kang ◽

Kwang-Jin Koh ◽

Gabriel M Rebeiz

Keyword(s):

Phased Array ◽

Sige Bicmos ◽

Array Receiver ◽

Ku Band

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Highly Stable Photonic Local Carriers for Phased Array Receiver System

Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research ◽

10.48084/etasr.3464 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 6294-6300

Author(s):

M. R. H. Khan ◽

M. A. Hoque

Keyword(s):

System Analysis ◽

Phased Array ◽

Complete System ◽

Low Noise ◽

Carrier Generation ◽

Receiver System ◽

Free Running ◽

Averaging Time ◽

Array Receiver ◽

Ku Band

In this paper, a complete system analysis of photonic local carrier generation technique has been investigated. The generated carrier is potentially suitable to replace the existing microwave/RF Local Carrier (LC) used in commercial Low Noise Blocks (LNBs) for the Phased Array (PA) receiver system. The optical LC generated from heterodyning of two commercialized lasers is being stabilized with an Optical Frequency Lock Loop (OFLL). This approach resulted in a generated carrier at the Ku-band (10.7GHz to 12.75GHz) signal received from a PA receiver. Various loop parameters of the OFLL have been investigated to comply with the requirements of the commercial LNBs The proposed OFLL shows a 2400 fold improvement in the frequency stability at 1000s averaging time compared to its free running condition. It is also demonstrated that with an optimized loop gain of 30dB, the loop response time of the proposed OFLL becomes 11μs.

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