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Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon Mitigation via Passive Beamforming Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
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Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon Mitigation via Passive Beamforming Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Kyei Anim, Md Abu Saleh Tajin and Kapil R. Dandekar
2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), pp 631-632
23 Jul 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237947
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Abstract

Array signal processing Conferences Directed energy weapon (DEW) Radio frequency reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) Simulation spiral antenna Spirals Weapons Wireless communication
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology to aid wireless communication. However, the potential of using RIS to mitigate directed energy weapons (DEW) is not widely recognized. In this paper, we propose to leverage RIS (based on spiral antenna elements) to aid the mitigation of high-energy radio-frequency (RF) sources applied to a DEW. For example, integrating a broadband circularly-polarized antenna system with RIS technology can successfully mitigate DEW attacks across a wide range of frequencies regardless of how the radio waves are polarized. We simulated a spiral antenna that operates within a frequency band of 1.3 GHz to 7 GHz with a 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) covering from 2 GHz to 7 GHz. Full-wave simulation results show the potential promising application of RIS for the mitigation of DEW attacks.

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