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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2001
Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hui-Pin Hsu, Northridge, CA (US);
James H. Schaffner, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Gregory L. Tangonan, Oxnard, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
An antenna system for receiving both circularly polarized electromagnetic signals and linearly polarized electromagnetic signals, the circularly polarize signals arriving at the antenna system from a direction normal or oblique to a major surface of the antenna system and the linearly polarized signals arriving at the planar antenna system from a direction acute to said major surface. The antenna system includes a high impedance surface and a plurality of antenna elements disposed on said high impedance surface, the plurality antenna elements arranged in a pattern on said surface such first selected ones of said antenna elements are responsive to circular polarization and second selected ones of said antenna elements are responsive to linear polarization.