Design of a Rotman lens feed network to generate a hexagonal lattice of multiple beams

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1099-1108

  Chan, Kwok Kee ^b   Rao, Sudhakar K ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Chan Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array feeds; Antenna arrays; Lens antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); HORN ANTENNAS; SATELLITE LINKS;

LENS ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0036699025     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.801292     Document Type: Article

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