Polarization Analysis of Trihedral Corner Reflector With High-Frequency Approximation

Abstract

Due to that the polarization scattering matrices (PSM) of single reflection (SR), double reflection (DR), and single diffraction (SD) at different angles are ignored, the PSM of trihedral corner reflector (TCR) is usually assumed to be [1 0; 0 1], which results in inaccuracy by utilizing its polarization to antijamming. Therefore, this article comprehensively analyzes the PSM of TCR based on high-frequency approximation. First, we separately analyze various reflection components based on the physical optics (PO)-shooting bouncing ray (SBR) model, so as to cure the deficiency that the classification discussion methods are susceptible to changes in target size and shape. Then, the PSMs of SR, DR, triple reflection, and SD are rigorously deduced and demonstrated by combining amplitude/phase information. In this process, we successfully integrate the six kinds of DR by the transforming of polarization base. Subsequently, the PSMs in the 2-D space are extended into the 3-D space, which are more suitable for the polarization characteristics of TCR. Finally, we compare the model in this article with the method of moment (MoM) of Feko software and obviously accelerate the model in this article through compute unified device architecture (CUDA). The conclusion of this article is significant for the polarization analysis of TCR to antijamming.