The design of circularly polarized aperture antennas

By using equivalent circuits, the polarization transmitted from an aperture is analized in terms of the reflection properties of the aperture, the length of the Waveguide, and pertinent parameters of the exciting antenns. The techniques described afford a systematic procedure for designing antennas which are circularly polarized at one frequency or which have a low axial ratio over a band of frequencies, This procedure may be used to solve which have been applicable to lessless antennas are derived. Systems for measuring all pertinent parameters are developed and theoretical predictions are correlated with experimental measurements.