Title :
Aperture blockage in reflector antennas
Author :
Ko, Wai L. ; Mittra, Raj ; Shung Lee
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL USA
fDate :
3/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The aperture blockage effects on both the copolarized and the cross polarized components of the front-hemisphere pattern of a typical quadrupod supported primary-feed paraboloidal reflector antenna are evaluated. A detailed numerical model of the scattering process which involves the feed, the feed supporting struts, and the reflector itself is employed to compute the blockage effect.
Keywords :
Antenna proximity factors; Reflector antenna feeds; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Aperture antennas; Electromagnetic scattering; Geometry; Numerical models; Performance gain; Polarization; Quantum computing; Reflector antennas;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAP.1984.1143309
