Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna for 2.46GHz in Program Suite FEKO

• Main Authors: Michal Márton, Ľuboš Ovseník, Ján Turán, Michal Špes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UT Press Publishing House 2017-02-01
• Series: Carpathian Journal of Electronic and Computer Engineering
• Subjects: FEKO; FSO/RF; microstrip antenna
• Online Access: http://cjece.ubm.ro/vol/10-2017/1710.14-10106.pdf

At present, as users' requirements for bandwidth and transmission media capacity increase, development of new technologies needs to meet the requirements. Optical fibers have offered solutions in this area, but such implementation of connections in some areas is costly. An effective solution of this problem is application of FSO (Free Space Optics) technology. FSO technology makes it possible to achieve transmission rates comparable with optical fibers at a distance of up to 10km. However, this technology has other drawbacks. One of them is the sensitivity to weather changes, in particular sensitivity to presence of fog. In this case, the transmitted optical beam interacts with water particles in atmosphere, which significantly affects quality of received optical signal. In an extreme case, there may be a connection failure that is undesirable. One solution is to deploy a backup line. In our case, we have designed a radio link in the unlicensed 2.46GHz band using microstrip antenna.