A dielectric bifocal lens for multibeam antenna applications

An iteration technique is applied to the design of a bifocal dielectric lens antenna. A bifocal lens has two conjugate off-axis focal points and offers good off-axis scanning performance. A computer model was developed to aid in the design analysis and far-field performance evaluation of a bifocal lens. The computer simulation results demonstrate that the bifocal dielectric lens can provide a higher-gain radiation pattern for multibeam antenna (MBA) applications over a large field-of-view. The computer study also indicates that the quadratic phase error can be significantly reduced by constraining the feed along an optimized focal arc.<
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