Single- and dual-band multimode hard horn antennas with partly corrugated walls

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 330-339

  Sotoudeh, Omid ^a,d   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Ingvarson, Per ^b   Skobelev, Sergei P ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SAAB AB   (Sweden)

^c Joint Stock Company Radiophyzika   (Russian Federation)

^d Sony Ericson Mobile Communications   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cluster feed; Feed; Hard horn; Ka band; Multibeam antenna; Multimode horn; Reflector antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLUSTER FEED; HARD HORN; MULTIBEAM ANTENNA; MULTIMODE HORN; REFLECTOR ANTENNA;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 32444435636     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863389     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. P.-S. Kildal, "Definition of artificially soft and hard surfaces for electromagnetic waves," Electron. Lett., vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 168-170, Feb. 1988.
2. P.-S. Kildal, "Artificially soft and hard surfaces in electromagnetics," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1537-1544, Oct. 1990.
3. P.-S. Kildal and A. Kishk, "EM Modeling of surfaces with STOP or GO characteristics - Artificial magnetic conductors and soft and hard surfaces," Appl. Computat. Electromagn. Soc. J., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 32-40, Mar. 2003.
4. E. Lier and P.-S Kildal, "Soft and hard horn antennas," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1152-1157, Aug. 1988.
5. P.-S. Kildal and E. Lier, "Hard horns improve cluster feeds of satellite antennas," Electron. Lett., vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 491-492, Apr. 1988.
6. E. Lier, "Hard waveguide feeds with circular symmetry for aperture efficiency enhancement," Electron. Lett., vol. 24, pp. 166-167, 1988.
7. E. Lier, "Analysis of soft and hard strip-loaded horns using a circular cylindrical model," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 783-793, Jun. 1990.
8. P.-S. Kildal, "Bandwidth of a square hard horn," Inst. Elect. Eng. Proc. H Microw., Antennas Propag., vol. 135, no. 4, pp. 275-278, Aug. 1988.
9. S. P. Skobelev and P.-S. Kildal, "Blindness removal in arrays of rectangular waveguides using dielectrically loaded hard walls," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 546-550, Apr. 1998.
10. S. P. Skobelev and P.-S. Kildal, "Performance of an array of circular waveguides with strip-loaded dielectric hard walls," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 1106-1114, Jul. 2000.
11. M. Ng Mou Kehn and P.-S. Kildal, "Miniaturized rectangular hard waveguides for use in multifrequency phased arrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 100-109, Jan. 2005.
12. M. A. Ali, S. C. Ortiz, T. Ivanov, and A. Mortazawi, "Analysis and measurement of hard-horn feeds for the excitation of quasioptical amplifiers," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 479-487, Apr. 1999.
13. S. P. Skobelev and P.-S. Kildal, "Analysis of conical quasi-TEM horn with a hard corrugated section," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 2723-2731, Oct. 2003.
14. S. P. Skobelev and P. S. Kildal, "Analysis of a hard strip-loaded conical horn by the method of generalized scattering matrices," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 2918-2925, Oct. 2003.
15. P.-S. Kildal, A. Kishk, and Z. Sipus, "Asymptotic boundary conditions for strip-loaded and corrugated surfaces," Microw. Opt. Tech. Lett., vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 99-101, 1997.
16. S. P. Skobelev and P.-S. Kildal, "Mode-matching modeling of a hard conical quasi-TEM horn realized by an EBG structure with strips and vias," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 53, pp. 139-143, Jan. 2005.
17. O. Sotoudeh, P.-S. Kildal, and Z. Sipus, "Study of high efficiency hard horn antenna using hard circular waveguide mode and classical aperture integration methods," Microw. Opt. Tech. Lett., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 516-523, Mar. 2005.
18. A. A. Kishk and M. Morgan, "Analysis of circular waveguides with soft and hard surfaces realized by strip-loaded walls using asymptotic boundary condition," Microw. Opt. Tech. Lett., vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 433-436, Jun. 2001.
19. K. S. Rao, "Parametric design and analysis of multiple-beam reflector antennas for satellite communications," IEEE AP Mag., vol. 45, no. 4, Aug. 2003.
20. A. Bhattacharyya and G. Goyette, "A novel horn radiator with high aperture efficiency and low cross-polarization and applications in arrays and multibeam reflector antennas," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 2850-2859, Nov. 2004.
21. H. Deguchi, M. Tsuji, and H. Shigesawa, "Multimode horn antenna with both high efficiency and low cross polarization," Electron. Commun. Japan, vol. 86, pp. 36-42, 2003.
22. Y. Rahmat-Samii and E. Michielsson, Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithm. New York: Wiley, 1999.
23. (2005) QuickWave V5.0 Manual. Copyright QWED, Warsaw. [Online]. Available: http://www.qwed.com.pl
24. P. D. Potter, "A new horn antenna with suppressed side lobes and equal beam widths," Microw. J., vol. 6, p. 71, 1963.
25. 11 mode by a large diameter conical junction (correspondence)," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 17, pp. 277-279, May 1969.
26. L. A. Weinstein, The Theory of Diffraction and the Factorization Method. Boulder, CO: Golem, 1969.
27. P.-S. Kildal and O. Sotoudeh, "Horn Antenna With High Efficiency," Swedish patent application 0 501 241-4, May 2005.