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Fig. 6. Simulated output ports phase difference comparison between the Fig. 8. Simulated and measured return loss of the proposed CP dual L-probe
conventional 90 hybrid coupler and the proposed 90 broadband balun. circular patch antenna.
Fig. 7. Geometry of the proposed CP dual L-probe circular patch antenna. Fig. 9. Simulated and measured axial ratio of the proposed CP dual L-probe
circular patch antenna.
Fig. 10. Simulated and measured boresight gain of the proposed CP dual
L-probe circular patch antenna.
Fig. 13. Geometry of the proposed CP quadruple L-probe circular patch an-
tenna.
Fig. 14. Simulated and measured return loss of the proposed CP quadruple
L-probe circular patch antenna.
Fig. 15. Simulated and measured axial ratio of the proposed CP quadruple
L-probe circular patch antenna.
Fig. 16. Simulated and measured boresight gain of the proposed CP quadruple
L-probe circular patch antenna.
V. CONCLUSION
We have shown that for both the dual and quadruple L-probe proposed 90 broadband balun allowed for significantly im-
circularly polarized circular patch antennas, the use of the proved impedance and axial ratio bandwidths. Our proposed
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He is an organizer of the workshop on radio-over-fiber technologies at the Ling Chuen Ong (SM’02) received the Ph.D. degree
IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium in Orlando, FL, in 2008 and was a tech- from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham,
nical program committee member of the IEEE TENCON2006, IEEE ICCS2006, U.K., in 1996.
IEEE RFIT2007, and IEEE VTC2008 (Spring). He is a regular reviewer for From 1992 to 1994, he was a Research Associate
the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, IEEE ANTENNA with the University of Birmingham. From 1996 to
AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE 1999, he was with Singapore Telecom as a Network
THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS Planner and Project Manager for its first digital
LETTERS, RADIO SCIENCE, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, Elec- trunked radio system. Currently, he is an Assistant
tronics Letters, etc. Department Manager with the Institute for Info-
comm Research, Agency for Science, Technology
and Research (A STAR). His research interests
include radio-over-fiber technology for intelligent transport systems and future
Kah-Wee Khoo (S’04) was born and educated wireless communications, low temperature co-fired ceramics and ultrawide-
in Singapore. He received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. band technology. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the National
degrees in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
University of Singapore, in 2005 and 2008, respec- Dr. Ong’s Ph.D. studies were financed by a Science and Engineering Re-
tively. search Council grant and a postgraduate scholarship from the Institute of Elec-
He has been with the Institute for Infocomm trical Engineers (IEE), London, U.K.
Research, Singapore, since 2004. His current re-
search interests include printed antennas, dielectric
resonator antennas and RF circuit design.