• DocumentCode
    1437681
  • Title

    Design of a large-aperture lens antenna usable over a +or-15 degrees scanning sector

  • Author

    Parsons, Chester L. ; Miller, Lee S.

  • Author_Institution
    NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Island, VA, USA
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1988
  • Firstpage
    1162
  • Lastpage
    1165
  • Abstract
    A lens antenna design is described which requires the formation of both on-axis and far off-axis beams. The aperture is about 100 wavelengths in diameter, and the off-axis beams are displaced +or-20 beamwidths from the axis. The results are indicative of the much greater scan capabilities of lensatic antennas compared to paraboloidal designs when both have single-aperture nonarray feeds.<>
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; lens antennas; microwave antennas; scanning antennas; far off-axis beams; large-aperture lens antenna; on-axis beams; scanning sector; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Aperture antennas; Equations; Lenses; Lighting; NASA; Optical design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/8.7232
  • Filename
    7232