The equivalent source concept applied to the analysis of radome performance
Abstract
The properties of an antenna are altered when the antenna is covered by a protective radome. Undesirable effects on the antenna pattern include boresight shift, increased sidelobe levels and depolarization. Such deterioration of antenna performance may be analyzed by treating the fields transmitted through the radome as equivalent sources and applying the equivalence principle. This approach is applicable to the analysis of transmitting and receiving antennas.
- Publication:
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EASCON 1978; Electronics and Aerospace Systems Convention
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978ieee.conf..179B
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Performance Prediction;
- Radomes;
- Signal Distortion;
- Transmission Efficiency;
- Boresights;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Depolarization;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Sidelobes;
- Communications and Radar