Design Procedure of Two-Dimensional Slotted Waveguide Antenna Arrays
with Controllable Sidelobe Level Ratio for High Power Microwave
Applications
Abstract
This paper presents a complete design procedure, with an optimized
feeding method, of two-dimensional slotted waveguide antenna arrays (2D
SWAs). For a desired sidelobe level ratio, the proposed system provides
a pencil shape pattern with a narrow halfpower beamwidth, large sidelobe
level ratio (SLR), and very low sidelobe levels (SLL), which makes it
suitable for high power microwave applications. The radiating slotted
waveguide antennas use longitudinal slots, designed for a specified
slidelobe level ratio and resonance frequency. The resulting
two-dimensional slotted waveguide antenna array is formed by stacking a
number of similarly designed radiating SWAs, and fed with an additional
SWA. The proposed feeding method uses longitudinal coupling slots rather
than the conventional inclined coupling slots, which can provide better
values of SLR and easily obtain very low SLLs, in comparison with the
conventional systems. The feeder dimensions and slots positions are
deduced from the dimensions and total number of the radiating SWAs. For
a desired SLR, the slots excitation in the radiating and feeder SWAs are
calculated based on a specified distribution. Then, using simplified
closed-form equations and for a desired resonance frequency, the slots
lengths, widths, and their distribution along the length of the
radiating SWAs and feeder SWA can be found. Two examples are illustrated
with different number of slots and radiating elements, and one is
fabricated and tested. Chebyshev distribution is used to estimate the
excitations of the SWA slots in the examples. The obtained measured and
simulated results are in accordance with the design objectives.