Effects of Internal Reflections on The Performance of Lens-Integrated mmW and THz Antennas


Ozbey B., Sertel K.

International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES), Colorado, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 25 - 29 Mart 2018 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.23919/ropaces.2018.8364149
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Colorado
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Multiple reflections from electrically large hemispherical lens surfaces of lens-integrated antennas are investigated using an iterative Huygens' integral approach. In particular for mmW- and THz-band applications, double-slot antennas on extended hemispherical high-resistivity Silicon lenses have been widely used due to the high Gaussisicity of their radiation/reception patterns. Previous studies assumed an electrically-large lens and evaluated the antenna pattern using first-order physical optics approximation. Although this approach is fairly accurate for estimating the radiation pattern of such antennas, the reception pattern and the associated performance of receiving sensors need a more careful consideration due to the relatively large level of internal reflections from the concave boundary of the high index lens. Here, we present an iterative method to compute and study the effects of multiple refections inside electrically large lenses. The rich nature of quasi-optical wave behavior is demonstrated through several examples corresponding to individual bounces of the incident, reflected, and transmitted waves from a double slot antenna.