Plane wave spectrum-surface integration technique for radome analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report an accurate boresight analysis for practical three-dimensional antenna-radome systems. The analysis of practical three-dimensional antenna-radome combinations has been impractical for antenna aperture areas greater than about <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">75\lambda^{2}</tex> . The principal difficulty encountered is the excessive computation time required for the large number of antenna near field calculations. The key feature of the approach taken by the authors is the use of the plane wave spectrum (PWS) formulation for calculation of the antenna near fields. The PWS formulation provides much improved efficiency over other nearfield analyses and makes this analysis possible. The method can also be applied to analyze other antenna distortion.