Breakthroughs in Low-Profile Leaky-Wave HPM Antennas

Abstract

This report describes progress during the 11th quarter of this program and highlights the current status of the research. Some of the more notable activities this period included: (1) more development, analyses, and initial recommended/suggested designs for the AAWSEA, (2) identification, design, and analyses of a novel leaky-wave high-gain HPM-capable antenna that can be directly-connected, without requiring mode-conversion, to any cylindrical-type HPM-source having a TM01-circular mode output, and (3) demonstrating (via 3D models) a method to incorporate HPM-capable leaky-waveguides into an extended but still fairly-compact package, in which the inherent frequency-based beam-scanning is effectively compensated, yielding a significantly broader-bandwidth antenna with a fixed-beam direction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 21, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011179

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Koslover
  • Sammuel M. Jalali

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antennas
  • Bandwidth
  • Contracts
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Frequency
  • Gain
  • Geometry
  • High Gain
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Military Research
  • Peak Power
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Scanning
  • Transmission Lines
  • Traveling Waves
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.