A New Concept of Focusing Antennas Using Plane-Parallel Fabry-Perot Cavities with Nonuniform Mirrors

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3171-3175

  Sauleau, Ronan ^a   Coquet, Philippe ^b   Matsui, Toshiaki ^c   Daniel, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directive millimeter wave antenna; Nonuniform metal grid; Plane parallel Fabry Perot cavity; Sub wavelength periodic grating

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ENERGY GAP; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LENSES; MIRRORS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

MOBILE-STATIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH PERIODIC GRATINGS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0042113342     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818795     Document Type: Article

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