Shared aperture antenna for simultaneous two-dimensional beam steering at near-infrared and visible

Ali Forouzmand; Hossein Mosallaei

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.11.010501

10 February 2017 Shared aperture antenna for simultaneous two-dimensional beam steering at near-infrared and visible

Ali Forouzmand, Hossein Mosallaei

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 010501 (February 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.11.010501

Abstract

A dual-band multilayer shared aperture antenna (SAA) is presented, which can recognize anomalous two-dimensional beam steering simultaneously at two distinct operating wavelengths lie in near-infrared (NIR) (λ1=1055 nm) and visible (λ2=700 nm) spectra. The supercell consists of one large cross-shaped resonator antenna (top layer) and a 2×2 square-shaped patches (bottom layer). This compact bifunctional dual-band reflectarray SAA can steer the main beam toward relatively large angles (≈40 deg) in both θ- and ϕ-planes at dual-frequency bands. The state-of-the-art techniques in antenna design are exploited to attain the minimized aperture size and negligible coupling among NIR and visible arrays. The overall height of the antenna is 275 nm (≈0.25λ1). The presented structure is customizable in form and can easily be scaled to other frequency ratios.

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Ali Forouzmand and Hossein Mosallaei "Shared aperture antenna for simultaneous two-dimensional beam steering at near-infrared and visible," Journal of Nanophotonics 11(1), 010501 (10 February 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.11.010501

Received: 22 September 2016; Accepted: 26 January 2017; Published: 10 February 2017

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