Wideband Monostatic Co-Polarized Co-Channel Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Broadside Circular Array Antenna

A novel wideband monostatic circularly co-polarized co-channel simultaneous transmit and receive (C-STAR) broadside circular array antenna with a partially shared beam-forming network (BFN) is proposed. The configuration consists of four sequentially rotated two-arm Archimedean spiral antennas, backed by a finite ground plane and driven by a BFN. Every two diagonal antenna pairs are fed with differential phases to obtain similar co-polarized broadside transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) beams. Each individual element has single feeding port and operates simultaneously as TX and RX over the same frequency. The proposed C-STAR approach utilizes antenna orientation, geometric symmetry, and partially shared BFN to overcome self-interference. In the absence of asymmetry and BFN imbalances, complete wideband self-interference cancellation is achieved without relying on time-, frequency-, space-, pattern-, antenna/port-, or polarization-multiplexing. The fabricated prototype has measured TX/RX isolation >38 dB, axial ratio <;3.7 dB, and realized gain between 3 and 8.8 dBic over 1.25-2.5 GHz. The TX and RX radiation patterns are similar with envelope correlation coefficient >0.93.