Ultrawideband Square and Circular Quad-Ridge Horns With Near-Constant Beamwidth
- Creators
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Akgiray, Ahmed
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Weinreb, Sander
Abstract
Two quadruple-ridged, flared horns, one with circular aperture and the other with square aperture, are presented achieving nearly constant beamwidth and excellent return loss over 6:1 and 4:1 frequency bandwidths, respectively, are presented. The circular and square quad-ridge horns are designed with nominal 10 dB beamwidths of 85 and 140 degrees, respectively. Radiation pattern measurements show excellent beamwidth stability in Φ = 0, 45 degree planes for both horns. Measured return loss is > 10 dB over the entire band for the circular quad-ridge horn and much better for 85% of the frequency band. The square quad-ridge horn also has return loss ≥ 15 dB over much of the target frequency range. To the best knowledge of the authors, these horns are the first demonstrations of ultrawideband reflector antenna feeds with near-constant beamwidth which can accommodate widely different optical configurations.
Additional Information
© 2012 IEEE. Date of Current Version: 10 November 2012; Issue Date: 17-20 September 2012.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 35570
- DOI
- 10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340506
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20121120-115043119
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2012-11-20Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-09Created from EPrint's last_modified field