Application of spherical wave expansions to reflector antennas using truncated field data

The electromagnetic field radiated by paraboloidal and hyperboloidal reflector antennas excited by an azimuthally independent, linearly polarized source is considered. The electromagnetic field is sampled on a spherical surface in order to numerically generate a set of spherical wave mode coefficients which, in turn, are used to compute antenna patterns. Patterns are produced in the near- and far-field regions based on both full and partial, or truncated, near- and far-field data as a function of the antenna parameters and the truncation angle location. The similarity of the patterns obtained from truncated field data to the untruncated patterns is found to depend on the pattern level at the truncation point, the location of the truncation point, the antenna parameters, and the radial distance between the spherical surfaces on which the electromagnetic field is sampled and produced.<
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