Method and device for adjacent channels operation
A method and device for adjacent channels operation based on downconverting the input signal to an IF signal, filtering the IF signal, and upconverting the filtered IF signal to the original frequency. The present invention is primarily directed to applications involving the use of standard RF transceiver which does not incorporate a high Q filter. Moreover, the present invention may be used with a circular polarized cross recessed corners stacked array antenna in order to further improve its adjacent channels operation performance.
1. A device for adjacent channels operation comprising:
an array antenna comprising at least one antenna element,
at least one signal downconverter coupled to each said at least one antenna element,
at least one filter coupled to said at least one signal downconverter, and
at least one signal upconverter coupled to said at least one filter,
wherein said array antenna is a circular polarized anay antenna comprising a feeding patch having cross recessed corners, and a radiating patch having cross recessed corners complementary with the cross recessed corners of the feeding patch, and
each element of said circular polarized array antenna comprises at least two radiating elements fed from the same input.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein said signal upconverter is upconverting the signal to approximately the original frequency of said signal.
3. The device of claim 2 , wherein said at least one signal downconverter is downconverting the signal to a predefined intermediate frequency having available standard filters.
4. The device of claim 2 , wherein said downconverter and said upconverter are using a same local oscillator.
5. The device of claim 2 , further comprising at least one additional downconverter.
6. The device of claim 2 , further comprising at least one standard transceiver coupled to said at least one signal upconverter.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein said signal upconverter is upconverting the signal to a predefined frequency in which off-the-shelf transceiver exists.
8. The circular polarized array antenna of claim 1 , wherein the characteristics of said circular polarized away antenna are controlled by setting different values and combinations to parameters comprising: (a) size of said cross-recessed corners, (b) distance between the two radiating elements fed from the same input, (c) distance between said radiating patch and said feeding patch, (d) thickness and type of a sandwiched dielectric material located between said feeding patch and said radiating patch.
9. A device for adjacent channels operation comprising:
an array antenna comprising at least one antenna element,
at least one signal downconverter coupled to each said at least one antenna element,
at least one filter coupled to said at least one signal downconverter, and
at least one signal upconverter coupled to said at least one filter,
wherein said array antenna is a circular polarized stacked array antenna comprising: (a) feeding patches having cross recessed corners, (b) radiating patches having cross recessed corners, (c) at least one sandwiched cross-recessed corner patch, wherein the patches are arranged in such a way that every two following stacked patches are cut in the complementary corners.