Equivalence of physical optics and aperture field integration method in the full pattern analysis of reflector antennas

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E79-C, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1152-1159

  Oodo, Masayuki ^a   Ando, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aperture field integration method; Diffraction coefficients; Equivalent surface currents; Physical optics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTEGRATION;

APERTURE FIELD INTEGRATION METHOD; DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENTS; EQUIVALENT EDGE CURRENTS; EQUIVALENT SURFACE CURRENTS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; PHYSICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SIDELOBES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0030218780     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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