Shared aperture antenna for independently steered, multiple simultaneous beams
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1. An antenna comprising:
- a lens comprising an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; and
a beam launcher comprising a plurality of phased arrays and a plurality of internal probes, each of said plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of said radiating elements, each of the phased arrays of said plurality of phased arrays being independently steered and having a corresponding aperture that is internal to the beam launcher wherein each phased array selectively space feeds a corresponding one or more of said internal probes with a different transmit signal through its corresponding aperture so as to generate a plurality of independently steered transmission beam patterns from said lens, the aperture of at least one of said plurality of phased arrays being separate from the apertures of the other of said plurality of phased arrays.
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Abstract
An antenna including a lens that has an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; and a beam launcher having a plurality of phased arrays and a plurality of internal probes, each of the plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the radiating elements, the phased arrays for space feeding a selected one or more of the radiating elements with signals so as to generate corresponding transmission beams from the lens.
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37 Claims
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1. An antenna comprising:
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a lens comprising an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; and a beam launcher comprising a plurality of phased arrays and a plurality of internal probes, each of said plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of said radiating elements, each of the phased arrays of said plurality of phased arrays being independently steered and having a corresponding aperture that is internal to the beam launcher wherein each phased array selectively space feeds a corresponding one or more of said internal probes with a different transmit signal through its corresponding aperture so as to generate a plurality of independently steered transmission beam patterns from said lens, the aperture of at least one of said plurality of phased arrays being separate from the apertures of the other of said plurality of phased arrays. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An antenna comprising:
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a primary lens comprising an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; a beam launcher comprising a plurality of phased arrays and a plurality of internal probes, each of said plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of said radiating elements, each of the phased arrays of said plurality of phased arrays being independently steered and selectively space feeding a corresponding one or more of said internal probes with a different transmit signal so as to generate a plurality of independently steered transmission beam patterns from said primary lens; and a receiver circuit for receiving received signals from at least some of said array of radiating elements, said receiver circuit comprising a receiver lens electrically coupled to said array of radiating elements, said receiver circuit being separate and distinct from said beam launcher. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. An antenna comprising:
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a lens comprising an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; and a beam launcher comprising at least a first and a second phased array and a plurality of internal probes, each of said plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of said radiating elements, said first phased array for selectively space feeding one or more of said internal probes with a first signal so as to generate a corresponding first transmission beam pattern from said lens, said second phased array for selectively space feeding one or more of said internal probes with a second signal so as to generate a corresponding second transmission beam pattern from said lens, wherein said first and second phased arrays are independently steered and said first and second transmission beam patterns are independently steered and wherein said first and second signals have the same carrier frequency. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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