Performance Analysis of 180° HRR Coupler Used for Direction Finding with an Antenna Array
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v13i10.7410Keywords:
Couplers, radio frequency (RF) signals, antenna array, wireless communicationsAbstract
This paper presents the performance analysis of hybrid rat race coupler, widely used in radio frequency (RF)/wireless communication systems to couple the power in the desired way. The hybrid ring coupler consists of 4 ports, two for the input signals and two for the output signals, where sum and difference patterns of the applied two signals can be obtained at two output ports and usually called sum and difference ports. In this work, the couplers have been designed and simulated at central frequencies (fo) of 2.4 and 10 GHz using different types of substrates such as RT Duroid 5880 and FR4. Furthermore, the coupler has been used for direction finding (angle-of-arrival estimation) application, where we combine the designed hybrid rat race coupler with a simple two antenna elements array (at fo=10GHz and RT Duroid =2.2) and fabricate the circuit in order to validate the performance of the coupler by measuring the direction of arrival (DoA) from and ports. The obtained results show that good performance can be achieved with the designs considered in this paper.
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