Focal plane arrays for large reflector antennas: First results of a demonstrator project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1127-1138

  Ivashina, M V ^a   De Vaate, J G Bij ^a   Braun, R ^a   Bregman, J D ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aperture efficiency of a prime focus reflector; Conjugate field matching; Dense focal plane array; Focal field sampling; Radio Astronomy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SAMPLING; TELESCOPES;

APERTURE EFFICIENCY; COJUGATE FIELD MATCHING; DENSE FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCAL FIELD SAMPLING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 10444221742     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.554895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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