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Fields in the focal region of a spherical reflector

B. Thomas, HC Minnett, Vu The Bao

IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · 1969 · 23 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

An earlier analysis of the field structure and energy flow near the axis of any circularly symmetric focusing reflector is applied to the case of a spherical reflector. From the results an estimate is made of the attainable efficiency of corrugated-waveguide aperture-type feeds.

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Fields in the image space of symmetrical focusing reflectors

HC Minnett, B. Thomas · Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers · 1968 · 87 citations

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