Abstract
AbstractSpherical reflectors have been used as wide‐angle scanning antennas due to the unique geometric properties of the sphere. The inherent spherical aberration, however, causes considerable performance degradation. This article presents a novel sub‐reflectarray compensating technique to correct it. A microstrip reflectarray is a planar, inexpensive, passive device with unique capabilities of controlling reflection phases. By exploiting this feasible property, it is employed as an auxiliary phase corrector, and the phase errors caused by spherical aberration are compensated. Two examples, a 35‐m spherical reflector antenna at Ka‐band and a 1.5‐m breadboard spherical reflector, are presented, and simulation results show great performance improvement for both no scan and large scan cases. Because of the difficulty in measuring large reflector antennas at UCLA, it is part of future plan to collaborate with other institutions for the verification of the concept. However, we believe that the simulation results generated in this article should provide acceptable performance prediction of the proposed antenna design. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 577–582, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24088
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