{"title":"Analysis of Spherical Lens Antennas - Comparison of Three Analysis Methods","authors":"T. Komljenovic, N. Burum, Z. Šipuš","doi":"10.1109/COMITE.2008.4569890","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a comparison of three approaches for analyzing spherical lens antennas - spectral-domain method, ray-tracing method, and time- domain finite integration technique (FIT) implemented in commercial software CST Microwave Studioreg. The spectral-domain method takes advantage of transforming the three-dimensional problem into a set of one- dimensional problems. The spherical lens antenna is rigorously taken into account by implementing the Green's functions for the multilayer spherical structures. The ray- tracing method is a general analysis method that can be applied to all kinds of lenses with general (non-symmetric) shape. Finally, FIT implemented in commercial software is general purpose full-wave method. The results of the analysis are compared with measured radiation pattern of a 12 layer Luneburg lens antenna.","PeriodicalId":306289,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Conference on Microwave Techniques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 14th Conference on Microwave Techniques","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMITE.2008.4569890","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper presents a comparison of three approaches for analyzing spherical lens antennas - spectral-domain method, ray-tracing method, and time- domain finite integration technique (FIT) implemented in commercial software CST Microwave Studioreg. The spectral-domain method takes advantage of transforming the three-dimensional problem into a set of one- dimensional problems. The spherical lens antenna is rigorously taken into account by implementing the Green's functions for the multilayer spherical structures. The ray- tracing method is a general analysis method that can be applied to all kinds of lenses with general (non-symmetric) shape. Finally, FIT implemented in commercial software is general purpose full-wave method. The results of the analysis are compared with measured radiation pattern of a 12 layer Luneburg lens antenna.