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Reflector Antennas

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The fine art of synthesizing, analyzing, and designing reflector antennas of many various geometries did not really advance until the days of World War II, when numerous radar applications evolved to satisfy diverse technical demands. Subsequent demands for reflectors for use in radio astronomy, microwave communications, satellite communications and tracking, and the like have resulted in both the development of sophisticated reflector configurations and analytical and experimental design techniques. Reflector antennas may take many configurations, some of the most popular ones being plane, corner, curved reflectors, and so on. In this chapter only the curved reflectors, such as parabolic and Cassegrain, will be discussed. The reader is referred to references [1, 2, 3, 4] for other shapes.

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Rahmat-Samii, Y. (1988). Reflector Antennas. In: Lo, Y.T., Lee, S.W. (eds) Antenna Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6459-1_15

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