Application of rectangular and elliptical dielcore feed horns toelliptical reflector antennas

The pattern characteristics of elliptical reflector antennas are investigated when they are fed by rectangular and elliptical horns partially filled with a dielectric. The bandwidth characteristics of these dielcore horns are superior to those of their corrugated horn counterparts. Representative reflector patterns are computed to properly demonstrate the utility of these feeds for reflector antennas with elliptical apertures. This reflector antenna exhibits high efficiency and low cross polarization, and may be suitable for radar and satellite antenna applications. The antenna configuration may become useful in relatively small antennas where more than 10% cross-polar bandwidth is required. The efficient dielcore horns may also be used as feeds for elliptical nonshaped dual-reflector antennas     

Conical-reflector antennas

The mechanical advantages of a singly curved conical reflector are demonstrated by the experimental test of a furlable 1.83 m conical-Gregorian antenna at 16.33 GHz. The measured gain of 47.5 dB corresponds to a net efficiency of over 57 percent. A ray-optics analysis of conical-reflector antennas is presented, and data useful in the design of conical antennas is given. The conical-Gregorian antenna, in which a subreflector is used in conjunction with a conventional horn feed, is considered in detail. A physical-optics analysis of the conical-Gregorian antenna is used to investigate diffraction and other effects, and to analytically confirm the high performance of the antenna. It is concluded that conical antennas are a valuable addition to available antenna-design concepts.     

Design of multiple-edge blinders for large horn reflector antennas

Attaching blinders to the sides of pyramidal horn reflector antennas and other large aperture antennas is one method of controlling high sidelobes for horizontal polarization. This paper describes analysis and design procedures for arriving at a useful multiple-edge blinder for reducing undesirable sidelobes of a pyramidal horn reflector antenna. Several blinders have been designed and tested for use with a pyramidal horn reflector antenna. They are directed at reducing a high sidelobe near90degin the azimuth plane where levels (referred to the main lobe) of -52 dB at 3.74 GHz and -58 dB at 6.325 GHz are presently typical. A 14-edge blinder designed using these techniques reduced these levels by 20 dB at 3.74 GHz and 12 dB at 6.325 GHz and did not significantly degrade antenna performance for other angles and other polarizations.     

多模反射面天线理论与技术研究

在卫星星座跟踪、远距离微波能传输等需要构建大功率均匀场的领域,都需要具有平顶波束的高增益反射面天线.受多模和混合模喇叭天线的启发,文中创新性地在反射面天线设计中引入了多模的理念.首先提出了双模反射面的思路,即在标准抛物面天线的最大辐射方向上引入相位差为180°的反相模式场,由两种模式合成平顶波束.然后,将双模的理念推广...     

High Tc superconducting active antenna withreflector

A high-T_c superconducting (SC) active antenna with a corner reflector is found to be useful for detecting electromagnetic waves (f=9.55 GHz). The SC active antenna is a new type of antenna which consists of material properties and antenna properties. The microwaves with fixed polarizations are radiated to the SC active antennas, and the detectivities and the directivities were confirmed experimentally. With the use of the corner reflector, the sensitivity and the directivity can be improved     

Unfurlable satellite antennas: A review

A review of unfurlable satellite antennas is presented. Typical application requirements for future space missions are first outlined. Then, US and European mesh and inflatable antenna concepts are described. Precision deployables using rigid panels or petals are not included in the survey.RF modelling and performance analysis of gored or faceted mesh reflector antennas are then reviewed. Finally, both on ground and in orbitRF test techniques for large unfurlable antennas are discussed.     

Passive intermodulation on large reflector antennas

In this work, an analytical model for the study of passive intermodulation (PIM) on large reflector antennas is presented. Passive intermodulation, in the scattered field, arises when the scatterer is nonlinear, or when it presents junctions connecting linear materials. Its presence causes a degradation of some antenna parameters and, especially, the cross-polar level, which may rise by several tens of dB. It would then be useful to develop a technique to predict its influence, in order to take appropriate steps during antenna design. A heuristic model for the junction problem has previously been derived and validated with measurements in a time-domain physical optics (TD-PO) framework. These results are applied here to a TD-PO analysis of reflector antennas, in particular, for a satellite-communication antenna and for a radio-astronomy antenna.     

一种多功能反射面天线的设计

介绍了一种多功能反射面天线的设计方法,利用同一反射面实现跟踪和干扰的功能。跟踪采用副面为栅条形式的卡塞格伦天线,干扰采用前馈抛物面天线。2种天线正交极化,通过理论计算、仿真优化结合合理的结构设计,保证2种天线的电性能及相互之间的隔离度。     

双频基站天线中的反射板形状设计

蜂窝移动通信系统中的基站天线通常由直线阵列加反射板构成,而反射板的形状主要影响天线的前后比特性及水平面辐射方向图.该文对适合于基站天线的几种典型反射板形状进行优选,并采用矩量法线栅技术仿真计算了各种反射板形状对天线辐射性能的影响,根据仿真结果给出了满足基站天线双频辐射要求的反射板形状.     

大型面天线CAE分析与电性能计算的集成

研究了CAD/CAE集成建模技术和天线组合结构理论,基于反射面位移场并采用PO法分析天线远区电场,解决了由背架、反射面和中心体组成的组合结构网格自动划分难题,开发了面向大型雷达天线结构的集成分析系统.此系统可辅助结构设计人员对天线结构参数进行修改,对结构形状、分布方式进行调整,对天线加工精度、装配精度提出合理要求.工程案例的应用结果证明了该系统的有效性与准确性.     

Integratable wide-band dual polarized antennas with rear field cancellation

Two variations of an integratable coplanar waveguide fed aperture stacked patch antenna are presented, which are capable of generating wideband dual polarized radiation. One of the antennas displays the desired characteristics for reducing polarization loss between an antenna remote unit (ARU) and mobile units at arbitrary angles. The other has a dual input structure and low cross-polarization useful for polarization diversity applications, or it can also produce circular polarization with the addition of a 90/spl deg/ hybrid. Back radiation concerns are addressed with the use of reflector patch elements. Results indicate that the rear directed radiation of the two slot coupled printed antennas mounted on small ground planes can be reduced across a wide bandwidth with the addition of a reflector element.     

反射面天线带内雷达散射截面

天线的雷达散射截面是结构散射项和模式散射项两个部分组成。在天线工作频率上，虽然模式散射 可以通过调整馈源匹配使其很小，但是宽频带的匹配实现起来并不容易。     

Synthesis of offset dual shaped subreflector antennas for control of Cassegrain aperture distributions

Many existing large ground reflector antennas have been designed as Cassegrain systems-i.e., paraboloid/hyperboloid combinations. Other large ground antennas are simply paraboloid designs. Upgrading the gain of these systems to a gain comparable to that obtainable with a dual shaped reflector antenna system has been an important and costly objective of many such ground stations. A potentially economic method for such an antenna upgrade is presented herein. It involves a redesign of only the subreflector portion of a Cassegrain antenna or the introduction of a subreflector feed system for a parabaloid. A pair of offset subreflectors are synthesized which will give a controllable high gain amplitude distribution in the aperture of the large paraboloid. The synthesis method that is used is based on an approximate formulation for an offset dual shaped high gain antenna that was first presented by Galindo-Israel and Mittra in 1977. In that approximate formulation, the geometrical optics (GO) energy was scattered from a subreflector and then from a second large reflector which reflected a uniform phase distribution. In the present offset dual shaped subreflector (DSS) antenna, the second reflection is from a smaller (sub) reflector and it scatters a spherical wave that feeds a hyperboloid or feeds a large paraboloid directly. Excellent results are shown for the approximate synthesis of the DSS.     

Design and analysis of multiple-beam reflector antennas

Simplified design and analysis equations are presented for multiple-beam reflector antennas based on the Gaussian-beam analysis of the primary and secondary patterns. The derived equations are useful for the quick design and performance analysis in terms of the coverage-area directivity and the inter-beam isolation of multiple-beam antenna systems. Results of the analysis given in this paper agree well with rigorous computations based on physical-optics analysis of the reflector-antenna radiation patterns. Extension of the analysis to multiple-beam lens antennas, and to shaped/contoured-beam antennas, is also presented     

Finite difference analysis of electrically large parabolicreflector antennas

A reflector antenna is analyzed using the finite-difference method (FD). The induced current densities on an axially symmetric parabolic reflector are rigorously calculated. The measured equation of invariance (MEI) is used to terminate the FD mesh very close to the reflector surface. To take advantage of the axial symmetry, the theory of coupled-azimuthal potentials (CAPs) is employed. Illustrative results are obtained for reflector antennas with different aperture dimensions. Results by physical optics (PO) approximation are also included for comparison. The purpose of this paper is not to replace ray optics (RO) and PO in the design of reflector antennas, but to demonstrate the advancement in the FD method, which hitherto was limited to low-frequency and closed-boundary regime. The calculated surface current densities of a reflector antenna do show that the normal component of the current densities at the edges exhibits high standing waves which are missing in PO, and which we know should be there. The standing wave of current densities may not affect the main beam, but certainly will have an effect on side lobes and have a major impact in estimating the loss of the antenna     

An offset reflector antenna with low sidelobes

The corrugated conical horn is considered to be an ideal feed for low sidelobe reflector antennas because of its unique characteristics. Analysis is carried out to show that low flare horns are preferred over high flare horns to give rise to low sidelobe performance for a given offset reflector antenna system.     

Cylindrical and three-dimensional corner reflector antennas

Two reflector antennas are proposed. The first is constructed by adding a cylindrical reflecting surface of suitable radius to theV-shaped corner reflector antenna. The feeding element is a half-wavelength dipole. The resulting cylindrical corner reflector provided a 2 dB increase in gain, minimum sidelobe level, low input reactance, and uncritical dependence of performance on frequency. The second antenna is constructed by adding a cylindrical surface to the three-dimensional corner reflector. This extension provided an increase in gain of at least 6.5 dB, an input resistance compatible with the commercially available 50- or75-Omegacoaxial cables, low input reactance, and uncritical dependence of performance on frequency. A grid-type cylindrical corner reflector antenna, and a three-dimensional corner reflector antenna with a cylindrical subsurface of finite reflecting surfaces were designed, and the measured input impedances, gains, and field patterns showed excellent agreement with the theoretical results for both antennas.     

Equivalent hyperboloid (ellipsoid) and its application

Analogous to the equivalent paraboloid, the equivalent hyperboloid (ellipsoid) for dual quadratic surface reflector antennas is derived. The condition that the equivalent reflector is center fed is also derived. The numerical example shows that a reflector geometry that satisfies this center fed condition is a good initial antenna geometry to design a shaped dual reflector antenna     

新型定向超宽带天线

基于圆片单极天线是一种结构简单的超宽带天线,研究了一种新型的超宽带天线,它将4个圆片单极天线垂直交叉放置作为馈源并采用平板反射面,实现定向以及双极化或圆极化特性。分析了2种变形形式:将平板反射器换为抛物面反射器,实现高增益特性;将圆片振子变形,实现更宽的低频端阻抗带宽。通过电磁仿真软件,计算了天线的S参量和辐射方向图随频率的变化规律。分析表明文中的天线对于传统的圆片单极天线有了有效的改进,实现了超宽带、定向辐射、双极化、圆极化、高增益等不同的特性,它们在卫星通信和移动通信中具有良好的应用前景。     

ICARA: induced-current analysis of reflector antennas

The aim of this work is to present the ICARA (induced-current analysis of reflector antennas) software, which is able to predict the behavior of reflector antennas using the physical optics method. The software offers different options for antenna configurations, single and array feed models, and far-field or aperture-field analysis.