2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting | 2019
On the Distortion of UWB Circularly Polarized Time-Domain Pulses in Presence of Rotation
Abstract
The paper provides a first theoretical study on the effect of rotational Doppler on circularly polarized pulsed communication. Despite the circularly polarized communication being considered immune to signal fading due to rotary misalignment, such misalignment will cause a frequency-invariant phase-shift. This phase shift will significantly distort the shape of the time-domain pulse. The property can be used for integration of orientation sensing into well establish pulse-based localization. However, it has also the potential to distort communication for some pulse-modulated UWB systems.