Optimal horn antenna design to excite high-order gaussian beam modes from teom smooth circular waveguide modes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1440-1448

  Bocio, Carlos Del Rio ^a   Gonzalo, Ramön ^a   Ayza, Mario Sorolla ^a   Thumm, Manfred ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circular waveguides; Gaussian beams; Horn antennas

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GYROTRONS; MILLIMETER WAVES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

GAUSSIAN BEAM MODES; SIDELOBE BEAMS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033309120     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.793324     Document Type: Article

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