IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Satellite Communication Technologies in Conjunction with Main Topics of JC-SAT2011
Novel Polarization-Tracking-Free Mobile Satellite Communication Systems and On-Ground Polarization-Forming Technique
Yoshinori SUZUKITakatoshi SUGIYAMAKiyoshi KOBAYASHI
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2012 Volume E95.B Issue 11 Pages 3412-3419

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This paper proposes an On-Ground Polarization-Forming (GPF) technique to realize a novel polarization-tracking-free satellite communication system whose communication satellite uses linear polarizations. In this system, mobile terminals use circular polarization to realize polarization-tracking-free and simplified terminal configuration. To output circular polarization from the satellite's horizontal and vertical polarization antennas, those output signals transmitted from the satellite are controlled by the base station using the GPF technique. We fabricate a GPF transmitter to evaluate its polarization forming performance. Measured results show that the proposed technique achieves very high cross-polarization discrimination, more than 27dB.

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