Print Email Facebook Twitter Wide Field of View Inversely Magnified Dual-Lens for Near-Field Submillimeter Wavelength Imagers Title Wide Field of View Inversely Magnified Dual-Lens for Near-Field Submillimeter Wavelength Imagers Author Gandini, E. (TU Delft Tera-Hertz Sensing) Tamminen, Aleksi (Asqella Oy) Luukanen, Arttu (Asqella Oy) Llombart, Nuria (TU Delft Tera-Hertz Sensing) Date 2018 Abstract A wide field of view (FOV) inversely magnified dual-lens system for submillimeter wavelength imagers is presented in this paper. The antenna is designed for near-field focusing, at a range of 2.1 m from the primary aperture and to work in the frequency range from 200 to 600 GHz. The half-power beamwidth (HPBW) is 0.27° (1 cm in the image plane) at 500 GHz, corresponding to a focused antenna directivity of approximately 55 dBi. The FOV is as large as ±25.4° (±1 m at the nominal range), corresponding to a scan range of ±100 HPBWs. The shapes of the lens surfaces are optimized to minimize the phase aberration loss over the entire scanning range. Moreover, the lenses are designed to be as thin as possible to limit the dielectric absorption loss. The directivity reduction of the edge pattern with respect to broadside is approximately 1 dB with efficiency of 56%, making this lens an excellent candidate for imaging applications. The dual-lens system can be refocused by displacing the secondary lens and shows an essentially unchanged angular HPBW over a refocusing range of ±50% with respect to the nominal imaging distance. A demonstrator was fabricated and the experimental results at 500 GHz confirm the predicted performance. Subject Passive imagerquasi-optical systemsubmillimeter wavelength To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b8ab5f07-7d38-48d8-82d8-81f299d1c4af DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2017.2778016 ISSN 0018-926X Source IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 66 (2), 541-549 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 E. Gandini, Aleksi Tamminen, Arttu Luukanen, Nuria Llombart Files PDF 44183459_CONSORTIS_final.pdf 3.15 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b8ab5f07-7d38-48d8-82d8-81f299d1c4af/datastream/OBJ/view