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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2012.37B.11.1072

A Study on the Ka-Band Satellite Output Power Control Technology  

Shin, Dong-Hwan (한국전자통신연구원 방송통신융합연구부문 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Yun, So-Hyeun (한국전자통신연구원 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Moon, Seong-Mo (한국전자통신연구원 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Lee, Hong-Yeol (한국전자통신연구원 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Eom, Man-Seok (한국전자통신연구원 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Yom, In-Bok (한국전자통신연구원 무선RF.탑재기술연구팀)
Abstract
For Ka-band satellite communication system, a new flexible payload technologies which can compensate rain attenuation have to be developed. The Ka-band satellite output power control technology enables to adjust downlink output power of satellite payload in Ka-band (19.8 ~ 22.2 GHz). In this paper, we introduce multi-beam antenna with multi-port amplifiers for Ka-band flexible output power allocation system. We have designed multi-beam antenna with array-fed reflector to form 8 beams on the Korean Peninsula. The target EIRP per beam is more than 59 dBW. The system is designed to present 6 dB boost beams for rainfall areas. Individual beams were optimized by the excited amplitude and phase of feed elements of the feed cluster. The multi-port amplifier(MPA) is one of effective approaches for flexible power allocation in combination with multi-beam antenna. In case of using MPA in multi-beam system, the inter-port isolation characteristic of MPA is important parameter to avoid interference among the output ports. In this paper, we propose a new MPA structure that consists of two $4{\times}4$ Buttler matrixes and phase/amplitude controllable power amplifier modules.
Keywords
Flexible payload; Satellite EIRP; Multi-beam antenna; Multi-port amplifier;
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