APERATURE BLOCKING OF THE HIGH-FREQUENCY LUNEBERG LENS BY A SEMICIRCULAR GRATING OF MONOPOLE FEEDS.

Abstract

The wire-mesh high-frequency modified Luneberg lens has numerous possibilities of application, among which are direction finding and azimuthal scanning with step-frequency ionospheric sounders. In these applications, where close feed spacing is desirable, numerous questions arise regarding the effect of the placement of feeds in the antenna aperture upon the lens radiation pattern in the absence of feeds. This paper describes an initial attempt to answer some of these questions. A geometrical configuration of feeds equally spaced around the periphery of the lens and the perturbing effect of this feed 'grating' upon the lens radiation pattern without the feeds is considered.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0630093

Entities

People

  • Terry S. Cory

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antenna Apertures
  • Antenna Radiation Patterns
  • Antennas
  • Boundaries
  • Direction Finding
  • Frequency
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Scanning

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space