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The next generations of ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will require polarisation sensitive, multichroic pixels of large focal planes comprising several thousand detectors operating at the photon noise limit. One…

Applying the directionality of a Luneburg lens, a sound reception system for ships is designed. A two-dimensional acoustic Luneburg lens which is made of 253 acrylic pipes of different radii which control the refractive index is used. It…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Sang-Hoon Kim , Byeong-Won , Kyung-Min , Gung Su Lim

We design an all-dielectric L\"uneburg lens as an adiabatic space-variant lattice explicitly accounting for finite film thickness. We describe an all-analytical approach to compensate for the finite height of subwavelength dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hanhong Gao , Baile Zhang , Steven G. Johnson , George Barbastathis

In this paper, we explore the concept of structural Luneburg Lens (SLL) as a design framework for performing dynamic structural tailoring to obtain a structural wave cloak and a structural waveguide. The SLL is a graded refractive index…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Liuxian Zhao , Miao Yu

We present a detailed analysis of a coupler based on the Luneburg lens to couple a silica waveguide to a photonic crystal waveguide. The dependence of coupling efficiency on the lens's truncation, cut position of the photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-18 S. Hadi Badri , M. M. Gilarlue

Multi-beam radar sensing systems are emerging as powerful tools for non-contact motion tracking and vital-sign monitoring in healthcare environments. This paper presents the design and experimental validation of a synchronized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Mohammad Omid Bagheri , Justin Chow , Josh Visser , Veronica Leong , George Shaker

Manipulation of spoof surface plasmons (SSPs) has recently intrigued enormous interest due to the capability of guiding waves with subwavelength footsteps. However, most of the previous studies, manifested for a single functionality, are…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jin Zhao , Yi-Dong Wang , Li-Zheng Yin , Feng-Yuan Han , Tie-Jun Huang , Pu-Kun Liu

Lenses are typically based on refractive index profiles derived from the geometric approximation of high-frequency waves, yet the critical issue of impedance mismatch is often neglected. Mismatched devices suffer from unwanted reflections…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Sebastiano Cominelli

In this paper we study the possibility of utilizing a loaded wire medium as an artificial material for beam shaping element in base station antenna applications. The wires in the lattice are loaded with a proper capacitive impedance to come…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka Ikonen , Mikko Karkkainen , Constantin Simovski , Pavel Belov , Sergei Tretyakov

In this paper, a wideband high-gain 2 ? 2-element subarray is presented for 60 GHz band applications. The antenna is fed with waveguide-fed cavity backed configuration and designed entirely via simple rectangular apertures. To improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Saeideh Shad , Hani Mehrpouyan

We present an automated design procedure for the rapid realization of wideband millimeter-wave lens antennas. The design method is based upon the creation of a library of matched unit-cells which comprise wideband impedance matching…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Nicolas Garcia , Jonathan Chisum

A circularly polarized leaky-wave antenna capable of frequency scanning is proposed in this paper. The main objective is to achieve high gain and polarization purity without the need for a complex feed network. The antenna consists of two…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Ali Mohammad Hakimi , Ali Keivaan , Homayoon Oraizi , Amrollah Amini

To overcome the limited payload of lightweight vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the aerodynamic constraints on the onboard radar, a compact nonuniform conformal array is proposed in order to achieve a wide beamscanning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yuanyan Su , Icaro V. Soares , Siegfred Daquioag Balon , Jun Cao , Denys Nikolayev , Anja K. Skrivervik

This paper investigates the acoustic Luneburg Lens (ALL) as a design framework for guiding acoustic wave propagation. In this study, we propose to develop an acoustic waveguide based on the characteristics of both acoustic wave focusing and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Liuxian Zhao , Timothy Horiuchi , Miao Yu

We demonstrate the back-end integration of broadband, high-NA GaN micro-lenses by micro-assembly onto non-native semiconductor substrates. We developed a highly parallel micro-fabrication process flow to suspend micron scale plano-convex…

We experimentally demonstrate imaging in the longwave-infrared (LWIR) spectral band (8um to 12um) using a single polymer flat lens based upon multi-level diffractive optics. The device thickness is only 10{\mu}m, and chromatic aberrations…

This paper presents the design and performance analysis of a 1x6 linear microstrip patch antenna array tailored for automotive radar and 5G millimetre-wave (mm-wave) applications. The proposed antenna array comprises six rectangular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Muhammad Asfar Saeed , Augustine O. Nwajana

Biconical-type antennas featuring high directivity have been designed, created, and tested in anechoic chamber. Results in the range between 1 and 5 GHz are presented in this article. In particular, two different configurations have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Daniele Funaro , Alessandro Chiolerio

Detecting primordial fluctuations from the cosmic dark ages requires extremely large low-frequency radio telescope arrays deployed on the far side of the Moon. The antenna of such an array must be lightweight, easily storable and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Suonanben , Fengquan Wu , Kai He , Shijie Sun , Wei Zhou , Minquan Zhou , Cong Zhang , Jiaqin Xu , Qisen Yan , Shenzhe Xu , Jiacong Zhu , Zhao Wang , Ke Zhang , Haitao Miao , Jixia Li , Yougang Wang , Tianlu Chen , Xuelei Chen

Reducing the bending radius of low-index contrast waveguides is essential in reducing the size of the integrated optical components. A polymeric multimode waveguide bend is presented based on the Eaton lens. The ray-tracing calculations are…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-28 S. Hadi Badri , H. Rasooli Saghai , Hadi Soofi