YIN Jia-xian, LIU Ke-cheng, LIU Pei-guo, et al. Analysis of Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna Using FDTD Method and Physical Optics[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2002, 30(6): 791-793.
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YIN Jia-xian, LIU Ke-cheng, LIU Pei-guo, et al. Analysis of Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna Using FDTD Method and Physical Optics[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2002, 30(6): 791-793.DOI:
Analysis of Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna Using FDTD Method and Physical Optics
the analysis methods of paraboloidal reflector antenna use geometrical-optics and physical-optics.The preferable numerical results will be obtained by using these two methods for electrically large paraboloidal reflector antenna.For electrically small radiator
the numerical results are not in agreement with experimental results
because the feed pattern are not only determined by feed radiator but also feed structures.In this paper
the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) is used to analyze the feed of paraboloidal reflector antenna
and because the computing areas include all the feed structure
we can obtain the precise near fields of the feed.The currents on the paraboloidal reflector can be calculated by using equivalence principle
and then we can calculate far fields of paraboloidal reflector antenna using physical optics.Using this hybrid method
the millimeter wave paraboloidal reflector antenna with waveguide slot feed is analyzed in this paper.Numerical results are compared with the experimental results
and the comparison shows excellent agreement over a wide angle.