Abstract
Multi-polarized antenna arrays have the ability to provide both the direction and polarization information of the incident signals, which is important in radar, sonar, wireless communication, remote sensing, and so on. In this paper, a diversely polarized linear array of sparsely located but identically oriented tri-polarized vector antennas (VAs) is designed for estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and polarization parameters of the incident signals in the presence of antenna mutual coupling (MC). In order to reduce the inter-VA MC, a new type of sparse array geometry is proposed, wherein the minimum inter-VA spacing is constrained to be no less than one signal wavelength. Considering the intra-VA MC effect, a full-wave electromagnetic simulation is introduced to fit the manifold vector of an isolated VA. Based on the sparse VA array, a polarimetric subspace scheme is proposed for DOA and polarization estimation. When the knowledge about the intra-VA MC is a priori unavailable, an algebraic polarimetric blind scheme is also provided for DOA estimation. Computer simulations and real-world experiments (using an S-band 24-channel tri-polarized array system) validate the efficacy of the designed array geometry along with the parameter estimation methods.
Highlights
Multi-polarized vector antenna (VA) arrays can be used to fulfill polarization–time–space joint signal processing
An important problem in VA array signal parameter estimation is the alleviation of the intra-VA and inter-VA mutual coupling (MC) effects
Note that the approximate characteristics of an isolated VA involving MC can be calculated via method of moments (MoM)-based full-wave electromagnetic simulations [21,22,23]
Summary
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