Towards the theoretical design of splash-plate feeds

Prototyping and performance evaluation of TDD-based 2×2 MIMO-OFDM transceiver

“…2 and Table I. The transceiver is comprised of a baseband transceiver, RF front-end, and dual-polarized parabolic antenna with a splash plate feeded by an orthogonal mode transducer (OMT) [6]. The prototype transceiver does not include any error correcting because we expect that it will incorporate the highly efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) functionality [7].…”

A Ring-Focus Antenna with Splash Plate in Ka-Band

“…Splash plate feed, which traces back to World War II, has not been used widely for the high VSWR [31]. Since the 1980s, antenna with splash plate feed has been researched by few papers, which present the power distribution control and equiphase on the main reflector aperture through dielectric materials and subreflector forming, while the main attention is payed on subreflector forming to improve performance [32][33][34][35][36]. Since the antenna with splash plate feed does not need the support for subreflector, it can gain higher efficiency.…”

“…Since the antenna with splash plate feed does not need the support for subreflector, it can gain higher efficiency. However, the problem caused by feed shelter [32][33][34][35][36] still exists.…”

Analysis and design of a novel hat feed with narrow beamwidth for the Fresnel zone plate antenna

“…In this article the design of a novel hat feed suitable for use in a multilayer FZP is presented. Because this feed is a rear-radiation waveguide, it has simple construction and less blockage loss compared with a horn and open-ended waveguide feed [3][4][5][6]. Such feeds have been used with very deep and shaped reflectors to decrease the edge tapering, reduce the back lobes, and compensate for the feed phase error [7].…”