Fast and Accurate Analysis of Reflector Antennas With Phased Array Feeds Including Multiple Reflections Between Feed and Reflector
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Year: 2014

Several electrically large phased array feed (PAF) reflector systems are modeled to examine the mechanism of multiple reflections between parabolic reflectors and low- and high-scattering feeds giving rise to frequency-dependent patterns and impedance ripples. The PAF current is expanded in physics-based macro domain basis functions (CBFs), while the reflector employs the physical optics (POs) equivalent current. The reflector-feed coupling is systematically accounted for through a multiscatteri