Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2013
Session Number:WP-2(A)
Session:
Number:WP-2(A)-1
Calculation of the Phase Center of an Ultra-wideband Feed for Reflector Antennas
Jian Yang,
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Publication Date:2013/10/22
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.54.WP-2(A)-1
Summary:
Next generation ultra-wideband (UWB) radio telescopes require UWB feeds for reflector antennas. Different from narrow band feeds, how to determine the optimal phase center location for a UWB feed over a wide operating frequency band has not been investigated much and therefore analysis and discussions on this issue are needed. In this paper, a method for calculating the optimal phase center of a UWB feed is presented. Examples of the Eleven feeds, a decade bandwidth feed, are used to demonstrate the applications of the new method.