SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING AND PRECISION ALIGNMENT OF TWO MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS BASED ON POLARIZATION-SELECTIVE MACHINE VISION
First Claim
1. A system for imaging and aligning antennas, said system comprising:
- an overlay imaging aligner comprising;
at least two antennas in association with a polarization gate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, at least one imaging lens and a common detector array, wherein said overlay imaging aligner aligns said at least two antennas by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with said at least two antennas on said common detector array.
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Abstract
A system and method for imaging and aligning antennas that includes an overlay imaging aligner composed of two or more antennas in association with a polarization gate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, one or more imaging lens and a common detector array. The overlay imaging aligner aligns the antennas by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with the antennas on the common detector array. The antennas can be, for example, mm Wave antennas, waveguides, etc. The detector array generates real-time digital images the antennas. Such an approach of simultaneous imaging leverages the spatial resolution of digital optical imaging to aligning antenna components.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for imaging and aligning antennas, said system comprising:
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an overlay imaging aligner comprising; at least two antennas in association with a polarization gate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, at least one imaging lens and a common detector array, wherein said overlay imaging aligner aligns said at least two antennas by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with said at least two antennas on said common detector array. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An system for imaging and aligning antennas, said apparatus comprising:
at least two antennas in association with a polarization gate comprising a retro-reflecting mirror and a quarter plate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, at least one imaging lens and an imaging detector array, wherein said overlay imaging aligner aligns said at least two antennas by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with said at least two antennas on said imaging detector array. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for imaging and aligning antennas, said method comprising:
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configuring an overlay imaging aligner to include at least two antennas in association with a polarization gate, a polarization beam splitter, a non-polarizing beam splitter, a beam dump, at least one imaging lens and a common detector array; aligning said at least two antennas via said overlay imaging aligner by overlaying simultaneous digital images associated with said at least two antennas on said common detector array by leveraging a spatial resolution of said digital optical images to aligning antenna components associated with said at least two antennas. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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