Passive intermodulation on large reflector antennas

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 13-20

  Bolli, Pietro ^a   Selleri, Stefano ^a   Pelosi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering by nonlinear media; Intermodulation distortion; Passive intermodulation; Physical optics; Radio astronomy; Reflector antennas; Satellite communication; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERMODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; LARGE REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; PASSIVE INTERMODULATION; TIME-DOMAIN PHYSICAL OPTICS;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 0036822865     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2002.1077773     Document Type: Article

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