Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides a wide beam lens antenna. The antenna improves the communication quality with a long-distance target and realizes high-quality large-area beam coverage.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a wide-beam lens antenna comprises a feed source and a lens, wherein the lens is a plano-convex lens, and a pit is arranged in the middle of the top of the lens; the outer layer of the lens is provided with blind holes which are uniformly distributed to form a lens matching layer; the inner core of the lens is a lens core layer, and the feed source is arranged in the center of the bottom of the lens.
Further, the equivalent dielectric constant epsilon of the blind hole2Is equal to the dielectric constant epsilon of the inner layer material1。
Furthermore, the central axis of the blind hole is perpendicular to the outer surface of the lens where the blind hole is located.
Further, the material of the lens is crosslinked polystyrene.
Further, the distance between the blind holes is smaller than half of the working wavelength.
Further, the feed source is located at the focal position of the lens.
The invention adopts the technical scheme to produce the beneficial effects that:
1. the lens matching layer covers the surface of the lens core layer and is of an integrated structure, and the lens matching layer performs good impedance matching on electromagnetic waves incident to an interface between the lens and air, so that high-efficiency wide-beam radiation can be realized.
2. The invention can improve the low elevation gain of the antenna, improve the communication quality with a remote target and realize high-quality large-area beam coverage.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
A wide-beam lens antenna comprises a feed source and a lens, wherein the lens is a plano-convex lens, and a pit is arranged in the middle of the top of the lens; the outer layer of the lens is provided with blind holes which are uniformly distributed to form a lens matching layer; the inner core of the lens is a lens core layer, and the feed source is arranged in the center of the bottom of the lens.
Further, the equivalent dielectric constant epsilon of the blind hole2Is equal to the dielectric constant epsilon of the inner layer material1。
Furthermore, the central axis of the blind hole is perpendicular to the outer surface of the lens where the blind hole is located.
Further, the material of the lens is crosslinked polystyrene.
Further, the distance between the blind holes is smaller than half of the working wavelength.
The following is a more specific example:
referring to fig. 1 and 2, the present embodiment includes a feed source, a lens core layer, and a lens matching layer. The lateral dimension (10-20 λ) and thickness (5-10 λ) of the lens, where λ is the operating wavelength; when the wave beam is large enough, the shaping design can be carried out on the lens by adopting a light ray tracing method, and the curve shape of the lens is utilized to deflect the near-spherical wave light rays radiated from the waveguide port to a specific direction so as to form an ultra-wide wave beam directional diagram.
By optimally designing the shape of the lens curve, the beam forming of spherical waves emitted by the feed source can be realized, and a new method is provided for designing a wide-beam antenna. The embodiment can improve the low elevation gain of the antenna, improve the communication quality with a remote target and realize high-quality large-area beam coverage.
The invention comprises a feed source, a lens core layer and a lens matching layer.
The feed source is arranged at the bottom of the lens core layer and can be in the forms of a waveguide port, a horn, a microstrip and the like.
The wide beam and other special waveform beam radiation can be realized by optimizing the curve shape of the lens.
The material and thickness of the lens matching layer are determined by the dielectric constant of the core layer material, and the matching layer can be made of a foaming material or a traditional material, and can also be made of a medium perforated structure or a metamaterial.
The lens provided in this embodiment is shown in fig. 1, the feed source is in the form of a waveguide port, and the lens has a transverse dimension of about 13 λ and a thickness of about 5 λ. The lens core material was crosslinked polystyrene, had a dielectric constant of 2.53 and a loss tangent of 0.0005. The lens matching layer is made by punching periodic air holes in the cross-linked polystyrene material of the outer layer to achieve the equivalent dielectric constant (about 1.7) required for impedance matching.
Full-wave simulation is carried out on the radiation performance of the lens antenna by using CST commercial software, and the simulation result is shown in FIG. 2. The simulation result shows that the directional diagram of the feed source is a traditional steamed bread-shaped directional diagram, and after the shaped wide beam lens is loaded, the directional diagram of the antenna radiates at a low elevation angle, so that the beam width is widened.
In conclusion, the wide-beam lens antenna can improve the low elevation gain of the antenna, improve the communication quality with a long-distance target and realize high-quality large-area beam coverage.