Employing Phase-Conjugation Antenna Array to Beam Microwave Power from Satellite to Earth

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Wang, Xin [1 ]
Hou, Xinbin [2 ]
Wang, Li [2 ]
Lu, Mingyu [3 ]
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[1] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[2] China Acad Space Technol, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China
[3] West Virginia Univ, Inst Technol, Montgomery, WV 25136 USA
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This paper conducts theoretical study on employing phase-conjugation antenna array to beam microwave power from satellite to earth in the context of space solar power (SSP) applications. Our analysis reveals that, the phase-conjugation array must have aperture dimension greater than 1 km x 1 km in order to be applicable to practical SSP systems. Moreover, antenna array with such a large size does not behave as a conventional phased array, in that the power receiver on earth resides in the array's Fresnel region rather than far-field region.
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