US3688311A - Parabolic antennas - Google Patents
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- H01Q1/421—Means for correcting aberrations introduced by a radome
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- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction or polarisation of waves radiated from an antenna, e.g. quasi-optical devices
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- H01Q15/22—Reflecting surfaces; Equivalent structures functioning also as polarisation filter
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- H01Q19/00—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic
- H01Q19/10—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces
- H01Q19/18—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces having two or more spaced reflecting surfaces
- H01Q19/19—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces having two or more spaced reflecting surfaces comprising one main concave reflecting surface associated with an auxiliary reflecting surface
- H01Q19/195—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces having two or more spaced reflecting surfaces comprising one main concave reflecting surface associated with an auxiliary reflecting surface wherein a reflecting surface acts also as a polarisation filter or a polarising device
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- ABSTRACT An ultra high frequency antenna comprising a reflecn fio p Dan tor having a focus and a focal plane, one radiating [30] Foreign App ca n ty source at said focus and at least one radiating source Sept. 9, France in said Plane ofiset respe t to f for illuminating said reflector, said sources producing 56, 343/78 at least two wave fronts of different directions and 343/840 phase correcting means in the path of the wave [51] Int. Cl.
- Antennas of this kind generally comprise several horns situated in the focal plane of a reflector, which is generally parabolic.
- Waves radiated by each horn are transformed, after reflection on the reflector, into waves which are plane, as a first approximation. This is strictly true in the case of a horn placed at the focus of the paraboloid. But the farther the horn is placed from the focus, the less plane are the wave surfaces.
- an antenna comprising a correcting arrangement for rendering plane the equiphase surfaces of the waves issued from the horns which are not positioned at the reflector focus, this arrangement being placed on the path of these waves and away from the waves issuing from the horn positioned at the reflector focus.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show, very diagrammatically, two embodiments of the antenna according to the invention.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 show in plane view two details of FIG. 1.
- the antenna shown in FIG. 1 comprises two horns: a horn S is placed at the focus of a parabolic reflector A and a further horn S is placed at a distance from horn S in the focal plane of reflector A. Both horns transmit vertic ally/potflized waves.
- Reflector A is built up, as-
- FIG. 3 which are spaced apart by a distance of the order Al I 0, Abeing the operating wavelength.
- the arrow in FIG. 3 indicates the direction of the electric field of the wave radiated by horns S, and 8-,.
- a further reflector M formed by wires inclined by 45 to the horizontal, is positioned for receiving the waves reflected by reflector A. It is followed by reflector E, having a full reflecting surface and spaced by M4 from reflector M. Reflectors M and E are positioned normally to the axis of reflector A. Reflector M is shown in FIG. 4.
- the waves transmitted by horn S are vertically polarized. These waves are reflected as plane waves R by reflector A.
- the vertically polarized wave R may be considered as the resultant of two component plane waves respectively polarized norma lly and parallel to the wires of reflector M.
- Vectors @(L represent respectively the electric fields of wave R and of said two components.
- the plane wave parallel to the wires is reflected by the latter with phase inversion, as indicated by vector in opposition to vector while the wave normal to the wires propagates through reflector M and is reflected by reflector E with a phase inversion. Due to the fact that the distance B between reflectors M and E is )t/4 the electric field vector e',, at the wires, of the wave reflected by reflector E, is again parallel to E].
- the two reflected component waves combine to form a wave whose electric field is the resultant Mctgrs e',, i.e., 2?, and P i.e. along the horizontal
- the waves radiated by horn 8 except for the fact that they do not possess, after reflection upon mirror A, plane equiphase surfaces, horn S being offset with respect to the forms of reflector A.
- this equiphase surface P is shown in FIG. 1.
- reflector M is curved in its upper part C turning its concavity in the same sense as surface P, so compensating phase adva'nces.
- the shape of the equiphase surface is as shown at P It will be noted that the only equiphase surfaces to be corrected are those of the waves from horns which are substantially offset with respect to the focus of reflector A.
- Sources which are more offset than in conventional systems may be used in combination with a source at the focus, which results in respective plane waves having direction of propagation at large angles with respect to each other; thus the average space angle covered by the whole radiation system, or radiation aperture, may be 10 times, for example, the space angle covered by the radiation originating from a single source.
- the curvature of mirror M is calculated for the horn which is most offset with respect to the focus. The more offset the intermediate sources, the more they are subject to correction.
- the shape of the curved part can be easily improved by trail and error.
- FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the invention.
- the primary sources S are placed in the focal plane of a parabolic reflector A.
- the whole assembly is placed in a radome Ra.
- the correction device C is a lens placed at the top of the radome, and through which propagate the waves radiated by the sources which are offset with respect to the focus of reflector A.
- this lens may be constituted by a zone, at the top of the radome, of a thickness which is variable and greater than the normal thickness of the radome, this thickness not exceeding one wavelength of the radiated wave.
- An ultra high frequency antenna comprising a reflector having a focus and a focal plane, one radiating source at said focus and at least one radiating source in said focal plane, offset with respect to said focus, for illuminating said reflector, said sources producing at least two wave fronts of different directions and phase correcting means in the path of the wave front(s) originating from said offset source(s), said correcting means lying outside the path of said wave front originating from said source located at said focus.
- phase correcting means comprise a lens located in the path of the waves radiated by said offset source(s).
- phase correcting means comprise a second reflector having a planar portion for reflecting wave front originating from said source located at said focus upon reflection thereof on said first mentioned reflector and at least a curved end portion for reflecting wave front(s) originating from said offset source(s) upon reflection thereof on said first mentioned reflector.
- An antenna as claimed in claim 1, comprising a plurality of offset sources in said focal plane, said cor recting meanslying in the path of the wave fronts originating from said plurality of sources.
- said sources radiate waves polarized in a first direction
- said phase correcting means comprise a second reflector having a planar portion for reflecting the wave front originating from said source located at said focus, upon reflection thereof on said first mentioned reflector, and curved end portions for reflecting the wave fronts originating from said plurality of offset sources upon reflection thereof on said first mentioned reflector
- said first reflector comprises wires parallel to said first direction
- said second reflector comprises parallel wires inclined at 45 to said first direction
- a screen being disposed behind said second reflector, parallel thereto, at a distance equal to M4, A being the operating wavelength.
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US4145695A (en) * | 1977-03-01 | 1979-03-20 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Launcher reflectors for correcting for astigmatism in off-axis fed reflector antennas |
US4339757A (en) * | 1980-11-24 | 1982-07-13 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Broadband astigmatic feed arrangement for an antenna |
US4343004A (en) * | 1980-11-24 | 1982-08-03 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Broadband astigmatic feed arrangement for an antenna |
US4491848A (en) * | 1982-08-30 | 1985-01-01 | At&T Bell Laboratories | Substantially frequency-independent aberration correcting antenna arrangement |
US4535338A (en) * | 1982-05-10 | 1985-08-13 | At&T Bell Laboratories | Multibeam antenna arrangement |
US4574287A (en) * | 1983-03-04 | 1986-03-04 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Fixed aperture, rotating feed, beam scanning antenna system |
US4755826A (en) * | 1983-01-10 | 1988-07-05 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Bicollimated offset Gregorian dual reflector antenna system |
US4769646A (en) * | 1984-02-27 | 1988-09-06 | United Technologies Corporation | Antenna system and dual-fed lenses producing characteristically different beams |
US4791427A (en) * | 1985-11-22 | 1988-12-13 | United Technologies Corporation | Multimode, multispectral antenna |
US6225961B1 (en) | 1999-07-27 | 2001-05-01 | Prc Inc. | Beam waveguide antenna with independently steerable antenna beams and method of compensating for planetary aberration in antenna beam tracking of spacecraft |
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US2736895A (en) * | 1951-02-16 | 1956-02-28 | Elliott Brothers London Ltd | High frequency radio aerials |
US2790169A (en) * | 1949-04-18 | 1957-04-23 | Itt | Antenna |
US2846680A (en) * | 1946-06-29 | 1958-08-05 | Bell Telephone Labor Inc | Directive antennas |
US2975419A (en) * | 1959-10-13 | 1961-03-14 | Newell H Brown | Microwave antenna reflector system for scanning by displacement of focal image |
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US2846680A (en) * | 1946-06-29 | 1958-08-05 | Bell Telephone Labor Inc | Directive antennas |
US2790169A (en) * | 1949-04-18 | 1957-04-23 | Itt | Antenna |
US2736895A (en) * | 1951-02-16 | 1956-02-28 | Elliott Brothers London Ltd | High frequency radio aerials |
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US4145695A (en) * | 1977-03-01 | 1979-03-20 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Launcher reflectors for correcting for astigmatism in off-axis fed reflector antennas |
US4339757A (en) * | 1980-11-24 | 1982-07-13 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Broadband astigmatic feed arrangement for an antenna |
US4343004A (en) * | 1980-11-24 | 1982-08-03 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated | Broadband astigmatic feed arrangement for an antenna |
US4535338A (en) * | 1982-05-10 | 1985-08-13 | At&T Bell Laboratories | Multibeam antenna arrangement |
US4491848A (en) * | 1982-08-30 | 1985-01-01 | At&T Bell Laboratories | Substantially frequency-independent aberration correcting antenna arrangement |
US4755826A (en) * | 1983-01-10 | 1988-07-05 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Bicollimated offset Gregorian dual reflector antenna system |
US4574287A (en) * | 1983-03-04 | 1986-03-04 | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy | Fixed aperture, rotating feed, beam scanning antenna system |
US4769646A (en) * | 1984-02-27 | 1988-09-06 | United Technologies Corporation | Antenna system and dual-fed lenses producing characteristically different beams |
US4791427A (en) * | 1985-11-22 | 1988-12-13 | United Technologies Corporation | Multimode, multispectral antenna |
US6225961B1 (en) | 1999-07-27 | 2001-05-01 | Prc Inc. | Beam waveguide antenna with independently steerable antenna beams and method of compensating for planetary aberration in antenna beam tracking of spacecraft |
US6246378B1 (en) | 1999-07-27 | 2001-06-12 | Prc, Inc. | Beam waveguide antenna with independently steerable antenna beams and method of compensating for planetary aberration in antenna beam tracking of spacecraft |
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