• DocumentCode
    1029970
  • Title

    Aperture efficiency and line feed phase center of parabolic cylindrical reflector antenna

  • Author

    Kildal, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    6/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    553
  • Lastpage
    561
  • Abstract
    Formulas for calculation of the aperture efficiency of a parabolic cylindrical reflector antenna fed by a line feed along the focal line are presented. The efficiency is factorized into a number of subefficiencies which include contributions from line feed end diffraction, and from blockage and reflections from line feed supports and from diffraction by gaps in the reflector surface. One of the subefficiencies is used to define a phase center for the line feed as well as to obtain a formula for calculating it.
  • Keywords
    Antenna proximity factors; Cylindrical reflector antennas; Parabolic reflector antennas; Reflector antenna feeds; Reflector antennas, cylindrical; Reflector antennas, parabolic; Antenna feeds; Aperture antennas; Diffraction; Dipole antennas; Interference; Linear antenna arrays; Poles and towers; Reflection; Reflector antennas; Scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAP.1984.1143370
  • Filename
    1143370