Wideband circular-polarized transmitarray for generating a high-purity vortex beam

Liangjie QIU; Xiuping LI; Zihang QI; Wenyu ZHAO; Yuhan HUANG

doi:10.1631/FITEE.2200539

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Wideband circular-polarized transmitarray for generating a high-purity vortex beam

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- Wideband circular-polarized transmitarray for generating a high-purity vortex beam
- 用以产生高纯度涡旋波束的宽带圆极化透射阵
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 24, Issue 6, Pages: 927-934(2023)
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  1.State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing 100876, China
  2.MOE Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Beijing 100876, China
  3.Beijing Key Laboratory of Work Safety Intelligent Monitoring, Beijing 100876, China
  4.School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  5.Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, Beijing 100094, China
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- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.2200539
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- Received：03 November 2022，
  
  Accepted：16 March 2023，
  
  Published：0 June 2023
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Liangjie QIU, Xiuping LI, Zihang QI, et al. Wideband circular-polarized transmitarray for generating a high-purity vortex beam[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2023, 24(6): 927-934.
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Liangjie QIU, Xiuping LI, Zihang QI, et al. Wideband circular-polarized transmitarray for generating a high-purity vortex beam[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2023, 24(6): 927-934. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.2200539.

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本文提出一款在Ka波段产生高纯度涡旋波束的宽带圆极化透射阵。为简化设计，所提出的透射单元由两个相同的组合构成，并用空气层将其隔开。亚波长结构以及双谐振特性确保了透射单元在28.4%的1-dB透射带宽内具有稳定的相移能力。基于此，加工测试了一款由喇叭天线馈电的方形口径透射阵。得益于蜂窝状布阵方式，所设计的透射阵可在28.5 GHz到38 GHz的宽带范围中辐射

=–1且模态纯度高于0.93的涡旋波束。测试的峰值增益为22.3 dBic，3-dB轴比带宽为27.6%。测试结果表明，本文提出的透射阵有潜力应用于高容量无线通信和高质量雷达成像方面。

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