The Photo-Injected Fresnel Zone Plate Antenna: Optoelectronic Beam Steering at mm-Wave Frequencies

Tom F. Gallacher; Duncan A. Robertson; Graham M. Smith

doi:10.1109/TAP.2012.2237004

The Photo-Injected Fresnel Zone Plate Antenna: Optoelectronic Beam Steering at mm-Wave Frequencies

Tom F. Gallacher^*, Duncan A. Robertson, Graham M. Smith

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Abstract

We present an overview of the photo-injected Fresnel zone plate antenna (piFZPA) method for non-mechanical optoelectronic beam steering. The piFZPA method enables rapid beam steering, over moderate field-of-views, at both mm-wave and submm-wave frequencies, that is suitable for a wide range of imaging and non-imaging applications. This paper develops a theoretical framework that details the design of piFZPAs and provides an understanding to, and optimization of, the piFZPA performance. As an example device, we present preliminary experimental scanning data on a transmission-type piFZPA, operating at 94 GHz, that relies on commercially available visible display technologies for plasma generation and reconfiguration. The experimental data is shown to agree well with numerical simulations and validates the theoretical framework.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1688-1696
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	61
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2012.2237004
Publication status	Published - Apr 2013

Keywords

Beam forming
beam steering
Fresnel zone plate
optically controlled antenna
optoelectronic
photo-injected Fresnel zone plate

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