The cloverleaf antenna: A compact wide-bandwidth dual-polarization feed for CHIME
Meiling Deng, Duncan Campbell-Wilson (for the CHIME Collaboration)
TL;DR
This paper introduces a compact, wide-bandwidth, dual-polarization cloverleaf antenna designed for the CHIME radio telescope, achieving broad frequency coverage and cost-effective mass production.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel antenna design that covers the entire CHIME frequency band with high performance and can be mass-produced economically.
Findings
Achieves < -10dB s11 over a full octave bandwidth
Successfully covers 400MHz to 800MHz range
Suitable for mass production and array deployment
Abstract
We have developed a compact, wide-bandwidth, dual-polarization cloverleaf-shaped antenna to feed the CHIME radio telescope. The antenna has been tuned using CST to have smaller than -10dB s11 for over an octave of bandwidth, covering the full CHIME band from 400MHz to 800MHz and this performance has been confirmed by measurement. The antennas are made of conventional low loss circuit boards and can be mass produced economically, which is important because CHIME requires 1280 feeds. They are compact enough to be placed 30cm apart in a linear array at any azimuthal rotation.
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