Retrodirective Antenna for Inter-Satellite Data Transmission

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993468

	Retrodirective Antenna for Inter-Satellite Data Transmission
	Xiaoli Wei1,2,3 ; Lianxing He1,2 ; Lei Chen 4
	2020
发表期刊	IEEE ACCESS (IF:3.4[JCR-2023],3.7[5-Year])
ISSN	2169-3536
卷号	8
发表状态	已发表
DOI	10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993468
摘要	A new X-band retrodirective antenna based on superheterodyne mixer and phase conjugating technology is proposed for inter-satellite data transmission in this paper. The novel phase conjugating circuit, utilizing the reciprocity of the passive mixers, achieves high RF-IF and LO-IF isolations, high communication link gain, and a very compact low profile layout with all antenna elements and circuit components arranged at one common layer of a double-sided printed circuit board (PCB). Its mathematical principles of circuit design are derived, and the effect of up and down conversion loss deviation of mixers on the amplitude and phase error of the circuit, thus on the beam pointing error and the side-lobe of the antenna is discussed. A prototype of circularly polarized one dimension retrodirective antenna is fabricated, and its bistatic RCS measurement in an anechoic chamber is implemented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed antenna array. The results show that, within the scanning range from -30° to +30°, the array has good retrodirective performance. The proposed antenna would be a good choice for the inter-satellite data transmission inside a distributed satellite cluster.
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来源库	IEEE
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条目标识符	https://kms.shanghaitech.edu.cn/handle/2MSLDSTB/121544
专题	信息科学与技术学院_硕士生信息科学与技术学院_特聘教授组_贺连星组信息科学与技术学院_博士生
作者单位	1.Institute of Satellite Electronics, Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of CAS, Shanghai, China 2.School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China 3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 4.School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
第一作者单位	信息科学与技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xiaoli Wei,Lianxing He,Lei Chen. Retrodirective Antenna for Inter-Satellite Data Transmission[J]. IEEE ACCESS,2020,8.
APA	Xiaoli Wei,Lianxing He,&Lei Chen.(2020).Retrodirective Antenna for Inter-Satellite Data Transmission.IEEE ACCESS,8.
MLA	Xiaoli Wei,et al."Retrodirective Antenna for Inter-Satellite Data Transmission".IEEE ACCESS 8(2020).