Imaging system fed by a quasi-optical beam-forming network for Ka-band satellite applications

M. Smierzchalski (1) , M. Ettorre (1) , R. Sauleau (1) , G. Valerio (2) , T. Makdissy (1) , E. Girard , H. Legay

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

A quasi-optical system in Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology is proposed to feed the primary array of an imaging system for satellite applications in Ka-band. An in-house Physical Optics (PO) tool is used for the complete antenna design reducing the phase aberrations of the imaging system and at the same time improving the Earth coverage by the Satellite. Measurement results validate the overall approach. © 2016 IEEE.

Keywords: Imaging system; Ka-Band; Physical Optics; quasi-optical systems; Satellite; Space-fed antennas

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

M. Smierzchalski, M. Ettorre, R. Sauleau, G. Valerio, T. Makdissy, et al.. Imaging system fed by a quasi-optical beam-forming network for Ka-band satellite applications. 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, PAST 2016, Oct 2016, Waltham, United States. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1109/ARRAY.2016.7832605⟩. ⟨hal-01508048⟩