Radiation Field or Fraunhofer Field: Basic Antennas
Radiation Field or Fraunhofer Field: Basic Antennas
Radiation Field or Fraunhofer Field: Basic Antennas
FIELD
ANTENNA EFFICIENCY ()
BASIC ANTENNAS
1. Elementary Doublet (Hertzian dipole)
DIRECTIVE GAIN
POWER GAIN
2. Half-Wave Dipole- resonant antenna
Voltage, Current & Impedance Distribution of Halfwave dipole
(b)
Broadside array
(c)
End-fire array
(d)
Log-
Periodic antenna
4. Loop antenna- formed into one or more turns so
its end are close together.
5.
Helical
antenna- A
circularly
polarized antenna
Two Principal Modes:
a. Normal(Broads
ide) Mode- inefficient
radiators, used for mobile communications
b. Axial (End Fire) Mode- the antenna
produces true circular polarization
Gain of a helical antenna
3dB
Beamwidth ()
PARABOLIC REFLECTOR ANTENNA
Gain of a Parabolic Reflector antenna
MULTI-ELEMENT
ARRAYS
1. Multi- according to their directivity: (a)
Bidirectional array, (b) Unidirectional array
2. In Terms of Direction of Radiation
(a) Collinear array
HORN ANTENNA
provides the impedance transformation between
waveguide and free space impedance