{"title":"Design and Evaluation of Wideband Three-Reflector Compact Antenna Test Range System Based on Integrated Computational Electromagnetic Model","authors":"Jinbo Ruan;Junsheng Yu;Tianyang Chen;Yuan Yao","doi":"10.1109/LAWP.2024.3506590","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we concentrate on computational electromagnetic modeling for a wideband three-reflector compact antenna test range (CATR) system and evaluate the subsequent quiet zone (QZ) field electromagnetic characteristics. The fast design of the feedhorn is accomplished by integrating a coarse model, employing the mode matching method and Stratton–Chu formula, with a high-fidelity model based on full-wave simulations. The reflectors are synthesized by integrating ray tracing and B-spline surface construction. The designed feed horn, in conjunction with two shaped sub-reflectors, forms a dual reflector feed system to complete the illumination of the main reflector. The QZ field for the three-reflector CATR is calculated using physical optics and the physical theory of diffraction in GRASP10. Utilizing Lorentz reciprocity theorem and plane wave spectrum, numerical calculations of far-field pattern measurement predictions are provided for three-reflector CATR and antenna-under-test combinations. The useful bandwidth of the three-reflector CATR is 480 GHz to 600 GHz, with a QZ diameter of approximately 1 m to 2 m. The copolar amplitude and phase ripple meet the quality criteria, and cross-polarization isolation exceeds 50 dB.","PeriodicalId":51059,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","volume":"24 2","pages":"499-503"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10767594/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
Design and Evaluation of Wideband Three-Reflector Compact Antenna Test Range System Based on Integrated Computational Electromagnetic Model
In this letter, we concentrate on computational electromagnetic modeling for a wideband three-reflector compact antenna test range (CATR) system and evaluate the subsequent quiet zone (QZ) field electromagnetic characteristics. The fast design of the feedhorn is accomplished by integrating a coarse model, employing the mode matching method and Stratton–Chu formula, with a high-fidelity model based on full-wave simulations. The reflectors are synthesized by integrating ray tracing and B-spline surface construction. The designed feed horn, in conjunction with two shaped sub-reflectors, forms a dual reflector feed system to complete the illumination of the main reflector. The QZ field for the three-reflector CATR is calculated using physical optics and the physical theory of diffraction in GRASP10. Utilizing Lorentz reciprocity theorem and plane wave spectrum, numerical calculations of far-field pattern measurement predictions are provided for three-reflector CATR and antenna-under-test combinations. The useful bandwidth of the three-reflector CATR is 480 GHz to 600 GHz, with a QZ diameter of approximately 1 m to 2 m. The copolar amplitude and phase ripple meet the quality criteria, and cross-polarization isolation exceeds 50 dB.
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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWP Letters) is devoted to the rapid electronic publication of short manuscripts in the technical areas of Antennas and Wireless Propagation. These are areas of competence for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S). AWPL aims to be one of the "fastest" journals among IEEE publications. This means that for papers that are eventually accepted, it is intended that an author may expect his or her paper to appear in IEEE Xplore, on average, around two months after submission.