Systems and methods for generating and electronically steering an orbital angular momentum (OAM) electromagnetic beam are disclosed. A system can include a beamforming device generating beamforming signals modulated based on OAM-mode-related phase shifts, and a beamsteering device generating beamsteering signals by modulating the beamforming signals based on steering-angle-related phase shifts. The system can also include an antenna fed with the beamsteering signals for emitting the OAM beam. The antenna includes at least one slotted radial waveguide partitioned into sectors, where each sectors receive a respective beamsteering signal. In some embodiments, the radial extent of the sector partitions is less than that of the cavity. In some embodiments, multiple sectorized waveguides are provided whose radiating surfaces are coplanar to provide the antenna with a flat radiating surface. The disclosed embodiments can provide electronic steering of OAM beams with improved radiation performances in terms grating / side lobe suppression and impedance matching.
An apparatus for steering a beam includes a beamforming device for receiving electromagnetic (EM) waves and outputting, based on the received EM waves, EM waves having one or more orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. The apparatus further includes phase shifters for modulating, based on one or more steering patterns, the EM waves outputted by the beamforming device. The apparatus further includes a radial waveguide divided into multiple waveguide sectors. Each waveguide sector has an input connected to one of the phase shifters, and one or more slot line antennas for transmitting the EM waves modulated by the phase shifter connected to the input, wherein the one or more slot line antennas are oriented differently to the one or more slot line antennas of each other waveguide sector.
The invention discloses a liquid crystal holographic phased arrayantenna measurement calibration device and a test method, and belongs to the technical field of satellitephased array communication antennas. The equipment comprises a rack assembly, a Z-axis jacking assembly, an X-axis moving assembly, a Y-axis moving assembly, an antenna mounting and fixing plate and a polarization rotation measurement centering assembly. The three-axis coordinate mechanism is installed in an inverted mode, so that reflection interference of metal parts on signals in the testing process is effectively reduced. The antenna circular array center can be automatically centered in combination with a polarization rotation measurement assembly, circular interpolation and linear interpolation motion are supported, and the amplitude-phase test requirements of the circular array antenna in the radial direction and the circumferential direction are met; the invention further provides an automatic test and calibration process for the planar radial waveguide and the liquid crystal tunable resonator array, the resonance driving voltage of each liquid crystalresonant cavity under the specific frequency can be efficiently and accurately calibrated, a foundation is laid for generating a high-precision holographic interference pattern, and the test efficiency and the calibration precision are remarkably improved.
The invention relates to the technical field of electronics, and discloses a radial waveguide power synthesis amplifier which comprises two radial waveguide power synthesis distributors and a plurality of power units, the two radial waveguide power synthesis distributors are arranged in parallel at intervals, and waveguide cavities are formed in the radial waveguide power synthesis distributors. A center feed probe and a plurality of branch feed probes are arranged in the waveguide cavity, and a plurality of first connectors which are coaxially and correspondingly connected with the branch feed probes one by one are arranged on the opposite surfaces of the two radial waveguide power synthesis distributors respectively; the plurality of power units are connected between the two radial waveguide power synthesis distributors at intervals along the circumferential direction, one end of each power unit is connected with one first connector on one radial waveguide power synthesis distributor, and the other end of each power unit is connected with one first connector on the other radial waveguide power synthesis distributor. The power capacity is large, the insertion loss is small, and the use flexibility is high.
The present invention provides a hybrid three-power-division filter, which relates to the technical field of radio frequencymicrowave circuits, and comprises: a coaxial line, which is used to transmit an input signal along a first direction; three output rectangular waveguides are arranged at equal angles along the radial direction of the coaxial line, and are used to output the signal along a second direction; a dielectric substrate, which is assembled on the cross section of the coaxial line and the E-plane of the three rectangular waveguides, and the dielectric substrate is composed of a laid coaxial probe, an impedance conversion circuit, a microstrip bandpass filter and a microstrip-waveguide transition conversion circuit; the present invention provides a structural mode of combining a coaxial line planar probe with a rectangular waveguide E-plane dielectric loading circuit to realize a circuit structure of a hybrid coaxial-radial waveguide with three-way power division and outputting signals in a specific frequency band.