A novel design of the polarizer based on a square waveguide with four posts and four irises for Ku‐band 10.7–12.8 GHz is proposed. The main advantage of the developed polarizer design is the option to tune its polarization characteristics by variation of the posts height. The equivalent circuit of the polarizer has been obtained using scattering and transfer matrices technique. Using this model, the polarization and matching characteristics of the suggested polarizer were optimized simultaneously using the trust region method. This method is reliable and robust since it provides good convergence properties. The novelty of this study lies in the use of a new waveguide polarizer structure based on a combination of irises and posts. Posts enable fine‐tuning of the polarizer performance, while irises promote wide operating frequency band. The following simulated characteristics of the optimal polarizer design were obtained: VSWR for the main modes of horizontal and vertical polarization is less than 1.47, the differential phase shift is within 90° ± 2.6°, the axial is less than 0.46 dB, and the XPD is higher than 32 dB in the operating frequency range. A developed polarizer can be applied in antenna feeds for satellite communication and radar systems.
One of the fundamental problems of modern digital telecommunications is the economy of digital information and frequency resources, which are highly limited. The introduction of novel telecommunication systems and 5G networks requires searching for principal solutions for the economy and reusing the frequency spectrum. Therefore, modern wireless mobile, terrestrial, and satellite systems use various new technologies to increase communication channels' information capacity for the economy of limited frequency resources. One of the most effective ways to reuse the information system's operating frequency band is to apply antennas with polarisation signal processing. Such systems provide the possibility to transmit and to receive simultaneously signals with different types of polarisation. Consequently, the application of electromagnetic waves with two orthogonal polarisations improves wireless systems' information characteristics for various purposes. This allows doubling the information capacity of mobile, terrestrial, and satellite communication channels. Also, polarisation processing is carried out in meteorological and radar systems to receive, transmit, and process information. The essential elements of such systems are microwave polarisers and orthomode transducers. The electromagnetic characteristics of these devices affect the aspects of the whole system significantly. Main electromagnetic factors include phase, matching, and polarisation parameters. The article presents the development of a compact tunable polarizer based on a square waveguide with three posts. The developed polariser operates in the X-band from 8.0 GHz to 8.5 GHz. Created a mathematical model of the polariser is based on the scattering and transmission matrices. To verify the developed theoretical model's correctness, the calculation of all characteristics was also performed numerically using the finite integration technique. The developed compact polariser based on a square waveguide with three posts allows tuning it's matching and polarisation characteristics by changing all posts' heights. The developed polariser's main advantages are small dimensions, tuning options, and aspects of polarisation transformation.
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