| Abstract: | In this paper, the electromagnetic radiation by circular aperture antennas fed by circular waveguides is considered. Electromagnetic fields radiated by the aperture antennas are formulated in detail and two aperture field distributions are considered, one being the uniform distribution and the other being the TE11-mode distribution. Some mistakes existing in the literature are pointed out. The detailed derivations for the fields by the TE11-mode distribution aperture were not commonly available in the public literature, although the solution is available. The analytical results obtained here are useful for antenna designers and antenna engineering education. |
