ZONG Ya-li, WANG Wei, WANG Cong-si, et al. Effects of Periodic Geometric Error of AstroMesh Reflector Surface on Radiation Pattern and Its Elimination Method[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2014, 42(5): 963-970.
DOI:
ZONG Ya-li, WANG Wei, WANG Cong-si, et al. Effects of Periodic Geometric Error of AstroMesh Reflector Surface on Radiation Pattern and Its Elimination Method[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2014, 42(5): 963-970. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2014.05.020.
Effects of Periodic Geometric Error of AstroMesh Reflector Surface on Radiation Pattern and Its Elimination Method
Since curved antenna surface is approximated by flat facets
the electromagnetic (EM) properties of an AstroMesh reflector are determined by the size and shape of the facets.A period disturbance technique is presented to decrease the grating lobe level generated by periodic geometric approximation error.At first
the periodicity of the error and the effects of the periodicity on EM properties are studied.Secondly
two strategies are developed to disturb the periodicity of the error
one is to introduce radial direction disturbance parameters
and the other is to change the shape of the rings.At last
an optimization model is built to obtain fewer segments
proper disturbance parameters and better EM performance.Numerical examples show that the presened method can eliminate the grating lobes level without decreasing the gain and increasing the structural complexity of AstroMesh antennas.