Numerical simulation study on bowtie antenna-based time reversal mirror for super-resolution target detection

Baidenger Agyekum Twumasi – Jia-Lin Li

   Bowtie antenna-based time reversal mirror (TRM), incorporating with randomly distributed and arbitrarily shaped wire metamaterials medium, is proposed to realize super-resolution target detection. The achieved performance for standard and scatterer bowtie antenna TRM is compared and discussed. The dual-band bowtie antennas resonate at 2.45 GHz and 5.2 GHz and a super-resolution of 0.0817 of the free-space wavelength at 2.45 GHz has been achieved. For the first time, studies show that the TRM with microstructure perturbations (namely scatterers) can enhance the resolution in some cases. Proposing a method of super-resolving transmission of electromagnetic waves is very important to realize multi-independent channels in a compact space for the related applications.

Keywords: electromagnetic time reversal, super-resolution, target detection, time reversal mirror

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