ON INCREASING THE EFFECTIVE APERTURE OF ANTENNAS BY DATA PROCESSING
Abstract
DESCRIPTORS: *Antennas, *Antenna radiation patterns, Linear systems, Low pass filters, Radiofrequency filters, Voltage, Temperature, Equations, Integral transforms, Least square method, Polynomials, Theory, Measurement, Data processing systems. It was established that although a finite antenna acts as a perfect low pass filter of the spatial frequency spectrum of remote sources, it is theoretically possible to deduce the entire frequency spectrum from the output of the antenna. The spectrum is a band-limited analytic function, its values for the frequencies outside the pass band could be obtained by a process of analytic continuation of the function from within the band where it could be measured. It was shown that the process of expanding a function on a finite interval by an orthogonal Fourier series is not only very convenient but it is the only one of any practical value since the expansion of the non-orthogonal series is accompanied by the extreme error sensitivity described in Chapters 5 and 6 of this report. The similarity between this problem and that of a supergain antenna is noted. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0283687
Entities
People
- Robert H. Macphie
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign