Inset-fed U-slotted patch antenna array for 10GHz radio-over-fiber applications

The increasing need for telecommunications, optical telecommunications networks in developed as well developing the functionality of radio waves with light waves in a Radio over Fiber network. On the network needed an antenna to support the process of receivers pick up radio waves then modulated with light waves. Antennas on Radio over Fiber can work at a frequency of 10 GHz WPAN communications. Wireless frequencies captured by the antenna can then be directly modulated and distributed through an optical fiber in accordance with needs. Antenna characteristic which must be met including small size, have a good level of matching, only consume little electric current, and has a unidirectional radiation pattern. In this paper, using an electromagnetic simulator, designed and simulated arrayinset fed rectangular microstrip antenna with U-slot for Radio over Fiber applications in WPAN communications that can be used optimally at a frequency of 10 GHz. The simulation results with optimum performance further implemented and observed at a frequency of 10 GHz performance. Results from the design and realization are patch arrayrectangular microstrip antenna with U-slot working at a frequency of 10 GHz with unidirectional radiation pattern; ≥ 3dBi gain; input impedance = 50Ω; and VSWR ≤ 1.5.