Retrodirective array immune to incident waves with arbitrary polarizations

Jun H. Choi; Yuandan Dong; Jim S. Sun; Tatsuo Itoh

doi:10.1109/TAP.2013.2281370

Retrodirective array immune to incident waves with arbitrary polarizations

Jun H. Choi, Yuandan Dong, Jim S. Sun, Tatsuo Itoh

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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Abstract

A retrodirective array (RDA) capable of retransmitting predictable polarization with respect to any received polarization state is presented. RDAs have the unique ability to scatter the received signal back to the interrogator without prior knowledge of the source location. In addition to this unique feature, the proposed system can receive any polarization and always retransmits the signal that is orthogonally polarized with respect to the received polarization state. This added feature helps to maintain a more stable communication link between the RDA and the interrogator by mitigating the polarization mismatch loss. The proposed system shows excellent retrodirectivity for various received linear and circular polarizations.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6595055
Pages (from-to)	6008-6013
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	61
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2281370
State	Published - Dec 2013

Keywords

Orthogonal polarization
Phase conjugation
Phased array
Polarization friendly
Retrodirective array

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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