Prediction of the Fresnel region field of a compact antenna test range with serrated edges
Abstract
The performance of antenna systems is always influenced by diffraction effects. Diffraction problems may be analyzed using physical optics or geometrical theory of diffraction. Here, the Fresnel field of a rectangular aperture with serrated edges is analyzed using physical optics. The method can be applied very successfully in compact antenna test range design for a fast prediction of the test-zone field performance.
- Publication:
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IEE Proceedings H: Microwaves Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- April 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986IPMAP.133..108B
- Keywords:
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- Diffraction Patterns;
- Fresnel Region;
- Geometrical Theory Of Diffraction;
- Microwave Antennas;
- Physical Optics;
- Apertures;
- Fourier Series;
- Fourier Transformation;
- Wave Functions;
- Communications and Radar