Mutual admittance characteristics for two-element parallel prolate spheroidal antenna systems

Abstract

Spheroidal dipole antenna systems consisting of two thin center-fed parallel prolate spheroids in various configurations (side-by-side and collinear) are considered, The resultant EM fields are represented as modal expansions in terms of spheroidal vector eigenfunctions. The translational addition theorems for spheroidal functions developed by the authors in a previous paper play the central role in the formulation of a system matrix [ G ] which transforms the primary. EM excitations of the fed dipoles into their scattered responses. From the knowledge of the [ G ] matrix, the mutual admittances of the dipole system are obtained and plotted against center-to-center separation of the dipoles for side-by-side and collinear dipole configurations. The major to minor axial ratios of 10:1 and 100:1 of the prolate spheroidal dipoles are considered for presenting various curves. However, for the side-by-side configuration, due to a radius of convergence of the translational relation for outgoing wave to incoming wave transformation, the separation d of the spheroids is restricted to d > {a_{1}, a_{2}}_{max} , whose a_{1} and a_{2} are the semimajor axial lengths of the two spheroids.