A new ultrawide-band (UWB) antenna named the "scissors antenna" has been designed specially for transient ultrawide-band applications. The scissors antenna, which is composed of conducting wires, radiates ultrashort pulses with very low dispersion. The radiation of this antenna has been characterized by a transient measurement method suitable for characterizing UWB antennas with very low dispersion. After a presentation of the scissors antenna, this measurement method is described. The last part of the paper presents a comparison between the radiation characteristics of the scissors antenna obtained by the transient measurements and those obtained by the classical harmonic measurements.Index Terms-Transient measurements, ultrawide-band (UWB) antenna.
Abstract-An ultra wideband radar system based on a coherent emission of an ultra-wideband antenna array using photoconductive switching devices is proposed. The triggering process is obtained by the excitation of semiconductor samples in linear mode using a picosecond laser source. The emitting antenna system and the receiving antenna developed by the Research Institute XLIM present some specific qualities suitable for radiation and measurement of ultrashort pulses. The optical control of the sources allows to sum the The experiments realized with this optoelectronic array validate these two concepts. Another way of improving these systems is proposed. It involves using bipolar pulse generators.
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