Radiation from aperture-fed paraboloids employing source-multipole expansions

A multipole expansion technique to study radiation from aperture antennas in the form of an open-ended waveguide-horn is presented. Particular attention is paid to dual-mode and corrugated circular horns. The radiation pattern of these feeds, derived in terms of multipole moments, is in the form of an algebraic series which converges very rapidly. Further, based on the multipole-expansion technique presented, the far-zone fields of an axially-symmetric aperture-fed paraboloid are obtained in closed form. It is demonstrated that there is a drastic reduction in computer time by using this technique instead of the conventional numerical integration procedure for calculating the far-zone fields of the paraboloid.