Dual-Polarized Wideband Low-Sidelobe Slot Array Antenna for V-Band Wireless Communications
Peiye Liu, Gert Frølund Pedersen, Wonbin Hong, Shuai Zhang
Abstract
A dual-polarized wideband low-sidelobe slot array antenna for wireless communication systems in the V-band is proposed in this work. The Taylor distribution is applied with each radiating slot as a tapering unit in both polarizations. A compact <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> element subarray is designed to achieve stable amplitude and phase distribution among elements with two sets of integrated compact wideband unequal power dividers for the E- and H-planes inside the subarray. Then, two layers of orthogonally polarized feeding networks with unequal E-plane T-junction power dividers are used to connect the subarrays to two standard waveguides WR-15 as input ports. The prototype of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$8\times8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> elements is fabricated and measured in an anechoic chamber. The maximum measured gain is 25.3 and 25.4 dBi for V- and H-polarization, respectively. The overlapped impedance bandwidth is from 57 to 66.4 GHz with reflection coefficiencies below −10 dB, and the isolation between two input ports is around 35 dB. Sidelobe levels of both polarizations are below −22 dB with good agreement with the simulations.