Measurement of properties of a smooth-walled spline-profile feed horn around 840 GHz

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-186

  Rabanus, David ^a   Granet, Christophe ^b   Murk, Axel ^c   Tils, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cross polarization; Gaussian beam launcher; Manufacturing; Radiation pattern; Sidelobes; Smooth walled spline profile feed horn; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); POLARIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TELESCOPES;

CORRUGATED STRUCTURES; CROSS-POLARIZATION; GAUSSIAN BEAM LAUNCHER; RADIATION PATTERN; SIDELOBES; SMOOTH-WALLED SPLINE-PROFILE FEED HORN; SUBMILLIMETER;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 33746225277     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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