An f/0.27 High-Gain Lens Antenna for Ultrasmall Platforms at THz Frequencies

Sven Van Berkel; Maria Alonso-Delpino; Cecile Jung-Kubiak; Goutam Chattopadhyay

doi:10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3291450

An f/0.27 High-Gain Lens Antenna for Ultrasmall Platforms at THz Frequencies

Sven Van Berkel^*, Maria Alonso-Delpino, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Goutam Chattopadhyay

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The development of a low focal number and low-mass lens antenna is presented that enables terahertz spectroscopy applications on ultracompact platforms. The antenna operates efficiently over a 20% fractional bandwidth, from 450 to 550 GHz, with a gain of 50 dBi at 500 GHz. The antenna consists of a hyperbolic silicon lens that is placed in a record low focal number configuration (f_#=0.27) with respect to an advanced waveguide feed. An incident field-matching analysis is applied to investigate the optimal feed radiation pattern that maximizes the lens aperture efficiency, which would result in a 20% increase in aperture efficiency (> 80%) with respect to a standard open-ended waveguide (< 60% aperture efficiency). A multilayer leaky-wave (LW) stratification is quasi-analytically optimized to approximate the optimal feeding pattern, resulting in a >70% lens aperture efficiency. An example LW stratification is synthesized using silicon micromachining technology and is fully characterized in combination with the dielectric lens.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	549-560
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
Volume	13
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2023.3291450
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Keywords

Antenna
CubeSat
high gain
leaky-wave (LW) radiation
lens
low focal number
low profile
radiometry
SmallSat
spectroscopy
submillimeter wave
terahertz
waveguide (WG) feed

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