@conference {20_EUCAP2020_ARRAY_DUAL_BOWTIE_EDUARDO, title = {Dual Circularly Polarized Waveguide Array Antenna Formed by Full-Metallic Bow-tie Radiating Cavities}, booktitle = {2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)}, year = {2020}, month = {March}, pages = {1-5}, abstract = {A full-metallic dual circularly polarized antenna based on an array of bow-tie shaped radiating elements is presented in this contribution. The radiating element, formed by a bow-tie shaped cavity, can generate dual circular polarization. It is fed by a square waveguide path that supports the two degenerate modes TE10 and TE01. The excitation of the TE10 mode in the input port generates left-hand circular polarization while the TE01 mode generates right-hand circular polarization. Furthermore, a dual circularly polarized array antenna formed by bow-tie radiating elements has been designed. The two degenerate modes TE10 and TE01 are supported by a four-way feeding network implemented in square waveguide technology. Both the single radiating element and the dual circularly polarized array have been fabricated by CNC milling techniques. A pure circular polarization performance, high gain or high efficiency have been obtained, experimentally validating the dual circularly polarized bow-tie element in an array configuration.}, keywords = {antenna diversity, Aperture antennas, Dual-polarized antennas, waveguide arrays}, doi = {10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135228}, author = {E Garcia-Marin and P Sanchez-Olivares and J L Masa-Campos and J A Ruiz-Cruz and J Herranz-Alpanseque} } @article {20_ANTENA_ARRAY_DUAL_SLOT_BOMBARDERO_KUMAR, title = {Dual-linearly polarized travelling-wave array antenna based on triple plus slots fed by square waveguide}, journal = {AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications}, volume = {119}, year = {2020}, pages = {153176}, abstract = {A dual-linearly polarized travelling-wave array antenna design at Ku-band composed by a novel single element named as triple plus slot is presented. It is formed by a plus slot with an additional pair of short auxiliary slots. The generation of the dual polarization is based on the two degenerated modes TE10 and TE01 supported by a square waveguide following a series feeding topology. Following the operation principle of the conventional plus slot, the transversal slot is only excited by the TE10 mode to generate vertical polarization while the longitudinal slot is only excited by the TE01 mode to generate horizontal polarization. The auxiliary slots provide new degrees of freedom to the antenna design process that allow to accomplish some strict requirements and overcome some design issues. Thus, the proposed triple plus slot has been experimentally validated in a dual-linearly polarized travelling-wave array configuration. The antenna has been fabricated and measured, providing some features such as high efficiency (>80\%), high gain (>13~dB) with a 1~dB-gain bandwidth higher than 10\%, grating lobe mitigation, high isolation between orthogonal polarizations (>25~dB) as well as a fractional impedance bandwidth (S11~<~-14~dB) higher than 11.7\% (from 16 to 18~GHz).}, keywords = {Antenna arrays, Dual-polarized antennas, Slot antennas}, issn = {1434-8411}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2020.153176}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434841119332042}, author = {P Sanchez-Olivares and J L Masa-Campos and E Garcia-Marin and D Barrio-Tejedor and P Kumar} }