Pattern shaping and synthesis of planar leaky-wave-based arrays for satellite communications

Francesco Scattone (1) , Mauro Ettorre (1) , Benjamin Fuchs (1) , Ronan Sauleau (1) , Nelson J. G. Fonseca

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique

In this paper we present fast synthesis methods for planar leaky-wave antenna arrays for space applications. In the first part we describe a novel optimization procedure to synthesize the element pattern of 2-D leaky-wave antennas. In particular, the goal is to shape of a flat-topped beam to be used in antenna arrays for GEO satellites. Secondly, we introduce a synthesis method to design thinned leaky-wave-based phased arrays. An efficient analytical approach is used to take into account the mutual coupling during the optimization process.

Keywords: antennas

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics

Francesco Scattone, Mauro Ettorre, Benjamin Fuchs, Ronan Sauleau, Nelson J. G. Fonseca. Pattern shaping and synthesis of planar leaky-wave-based arrays for satellite communications. Proceedings of The 2015 International Conference On Electromagnetics In Advanced Applications (iceaa), 2015, pp.366--369. ⟨hal-01380042⟩