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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 6, June 1998

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A Biconical Multibeam Antenna for Space-Division Multiple Access

Frank Demmerle, Student Member, IEEE, Werner Wiesbeck, Fellow, IEEE

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Abstract:

The biconical antenna is well known as an easy to build broad-band antenna with omnidirectional radiation. In this paper, the biconical antenna is modified for selective radiation in azimuth direction. By enlarging the diameter of the coaxial feed to the biconical antenna, a set of higher order modes can be excited. In addition to the angular independent TEM mode, higher order TE-modes are also allowed for propagation, which result in an angular dependent far-field pattern. Several features of this multimode excitation are of interest. Applying multiple input feed connectors allows simple rotation of the antenna beam by switching or, when independently operated, transmission and reception for communication in different angular directions for real-time space division multiple access (SDMA). As with conventional antenna arrays, adaptive pattern synthesis can also be realized by using multiple input feed connectors in combination with an appropriate amplitude and phase shifting network. The antenna allows an extremely flexible design of its characteristics at low cost, both requisites for SDMA communication.

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