Abstract
An efiective procedure is developed in this paper to compensate the probe positioning errors when using a near-fleld to far-fleld transformation technique with helicoidal scanning for long antennas. It is based on a prolate ellipsoidal modelling of the antenna under test and makes use of an iterative scheme to retrieve the uniformly distributed helicoidal near-fleld data from the irregularly spaced acquired ones. Once these data have been recovered, those required to perform a standard near-fleld-far-fleld transformation with cylindrical scanning are e-ciently determined via an optimal sampling interpolation algorithm. Some numerical tests are reported to assess the accuracy of the approach and its robustness with respect to random errors afiecting the data. At last, the validity of the developed technique is further conflrmed by the experimental tests performed at the Antenna Characterization Lab of the University of Salerno.
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