Title :
Modified ring currents to treat axial caustics and slope diffraction in edge-diffraction analysis
Author_Institution :
University of Southern California, Department of Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, USA
Abstract :
The letter describes a modified ring-current procedure which provides identical on-axis fields and also merges into the standard two-point edge-diffraction results.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; antenna theory; electromagnetic wave diffraction; reflector antennas; antennas; axial caustics; edge-diffraction analysis; electromagnetic waves; modified ring-current procedure; on-axis fields; reflector antenna; slope diffraction; two-point edge-diffraction results;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19810560
