Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging with Reconfigurable 1D Dynamic Metasurface Apertures

Conference: EUSAR 2018 - 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/04/2018 - 06/07/2018 at Aachen, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2018

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Boyarsky, Michael; Sleasman, Timothy; Pulido-Mancera, Laura; Diebold, Aaron V.; Imani, Mohammadreza; Smith, David (CMIP, Duke University, USA)

Abstract:
Driven by the growing need for lightweight and low-cost antennas, we investigate metasurface antennas as a potential SAR hardware platform. Metasurface antennas can generate arbitrary radiation patterns and electronically modulate them without requiring complex components such as phase shifters and amplifiers. In this work, we operate in the radiative near field of metasurface antennas and translate them with aperture synthesis to access 3D scene information without requiring spectral bandwidth. This work reviews metasurface antenna operation and examines their exciting potential in single-frequency 3D SAR imaging systems.