Electromagnetic beam-forming antennas underwater
OwnerMark Rhodes, Brendan Hylandinventors
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Abstract
An underwater communication system comprising a transmitter for transmitting information using an electromagnetic and/or magneto-electric transmit antenna and a receiver for receiving information using an electromagnetic and/or magneto-electric receive antenna, at least one of the transmit and receive antennas comprising a plurality of antenna elements which collectively use field superposition and interference to form composite field patterns, beams or shapes and wherein one or both the transmit antenna and receive antenna are underwater.
Claims10
An underwater communication system comprising a transmitter for transmitting information using an electromagnetic and/or magneto-electric transmit antenna and a receiver having a receive antenna, at least one of the transmit and receive antennas comprising a plurality of antenna elements which collectively use field superposition and interference to form field patterns, beams or shapes and wherein one or both the transmit antenna and receive antenna are underwater.
A composite transmit antenna or a composite receive antenna comprising a plurality of electromagnetic and/or magneto-inductive antenna elements arranged to be operative mutually underwater.
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