A 16,000-mc scanner is described which scans a40degazimuth sector alternately with each of two beams at a rate of 17 scans per beam per second. The beams have half-power vertical and horizontal beamwidths of0.76degand1.06degrespectively and are separated vertically by an angle of1.85deg. Horizontal collimation of each beam is achieved by a geodesic analog of the two-dimensional Luneberg lens. The lenses feed a section of a semiparabolic cylinder for effecting vertical collimation. Feeding the lenses is a switching system, consisting of two four-way turnstile waveguide switches and a waveguide chopper switch, which gives a scan-time dead-time ratio of 8:1.
Published in:
Antennas and Propagation, IRE Transactions on
(Volume:5
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Issue:
1
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Date of Publication:
January 1957
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21
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25
- ISSN :
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0096-1973
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1109/TAP.1957.1144471
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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06 January 2003
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January 1957