SWAN features:
- User-friendly intuitive graphical interface
- Customizable waveguide dimensions
- Dielectric filling of the waveguides
- Resonant and traveling wave slotted waveguide arrays analysis and design
- Mutual coupling and wedge diffraction effects rigorously taken into account
- Beam-scanning arrays design and analysis
- Dielectric and metal losses considered
- Array layout exportable in DXF format
- Text and graphical outputs
Applications:
- Radio link
- Mobile communication
- Satellite communication
- Radar applications
Slot Model:
- Rigorous wide-band model of the single radiating slot (Full-Wave)
- Customizable waveguide dimensions
- Dielectric filling of the waveguide
- Rounded edge of the slot
Design:
- Resonant and traveling wave slotted waveguide arrays design
- Internal and external mutual coupling effects rigorously taken into account
- Wedge diffraction effects on mutual coupling are taken into account
- Dielectric and metal losses considered
- Slotted waveguide fed from one side or from the centre
- Subarray can be made of sub-subarrays with arbitrary number of slots
- Optimization for a given scanning angle and central frequency
- Tapered aperture excitations (Chebyshev, Taylor, etc.)
- Shaped beam synthesis (arbitrary complex slot voltage distribution)
- Slotted waveguide array layout can be exported in DXF format
Analysis:
- Resonant and traveling wave slotted waveguide arrays analysis
- Internal and external mutual coupling effects rigorously taken into account
- Dielectric and metal losses considered
- Wedge diffraction effects on mutual coupling and radiation pattern are considered
- Input transition taken into account through its scattering matrix (S2P or S3P File)
- Feeding network taken into account through its measured or simulated scattering matrix
- Digital phase shifters can be considered when simulating beam scanning
- Mechanical tolerances and thermal expansion effects can be analysed
- Radiation pattern for different frequency points: 2D, Elevation, Azimuth
- Reflection coefficients: Magnitude (dB), VSWR, Smith Chart, Antenna efficiency
- Slot voltage distribution (amplitude and phase)