Patent ID: 11949162
Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated higher order Floquet mode structure (HOFS) meander line polarizer radome comprising: a substrate comprising layers having a dielectric constant (dk) greater than 2.0 and less than 5.0; a radome comprising an environmentally robust material, wherein there is no gap between the substrate and the radome; a HOFS comprising HOFS lines disposed in a first subset of the layers; and meander lines, to provide a phase shift and match, disposed in a second subset of the layers, wherein at least one layer of the first subset is disposed between the second subset of the layers, wherein the layers include a shared layer, and wherein the shared layer includes at least one of the HOFS lines and at least one of the meander lines.