Title :
Scanned blade beam reflector antenna for nearfield imaging
Author :
Garcia Pino, Antonio ; Gonzalez-Valdes, Borja ; Lorenzo, Jose A. Martinez ; Rappaport, Carey M.
Author_Institution :
AtlanTIC (Atlantic Res. Center on Inf. & Commun. Technol.), Univ. de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Abstract :
A scanned Blade Beam reflector antenna system is proposed. It combines a main reflector with parabolic curvature in the horizontal plane and elliptical curvature in the vertical one with a confocal configuration in order to achieve mechanical scanning of the blade beam by means of a tilting flat mirror without displacing the whole reflector system. The proposed configuration is suitable for nearfield millimeter-wave or submillimeter imaging systems.
Keywords :
blades; millimetre wave imaging; mirrors; reflector antennas; mechanical scanning; nearfield imaging; nearfield millimeter-wave imaging system; parabolic curvature; scanned blade beam reflector antenna; submillimeter imaging system; Blades; Imaging; Millimeter wave measurements; Mirrors; Ray tracing; Reflector antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5315-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2013.6711134
