Research papers

The number of main apertures needed to cover a full transmit/receive multiple spot beam mission can be reduced by using reflectarrays with array elements printed on a doubly curved surface. By combining the capabilities of the reflectarray and a parabolic…

Designing a contoured beam reflector or performing a direct optimization of a reflectarray requires a mathematical optimization procedure to determine the optimum design of the antenna. A popular approach, used in the market-leading TICRA software POS, can result in computation…

A Higher-Order Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (HO MLFMM) is presented for the efficient calculation of waveguide scattering parameters in cases where several reflector feeds are mounted on electrically large satellite platforms. The efficiency is obtained by: 1) using a Block…

This paper describes a reflectarray concept that can produce a full dual-band (transmit/receive) multiple spot beam coverage in Ka-band using only two main apertures while maintaining single-feed-per-beam operation. The proposed concept combines the capabilities of the reflectarray and a parabolic…

This paper discusses the design and analysis of a reflector antenna system combining two doubly-curved Circular Polarization Selective Surfaces to provide a functionality equivalent to that of a dual gridded reflector but in circular polarization. The key feature of this…