Journal of Radio Electronics. eISSN 1684-1719. 2025. ¹4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2025.4.1
ULTRA-WIDEBAND OFFSET DUAL-REFLECTOR ANTENNA
WITH A HORN-LENS FEED SYSTEM
V. A. Kaloshin1, Nguyen The Thanh2
1Kotelnikov IRE RAS
125009, Russia, Moscow, Mokhovaya str., 11, b.72Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(National Research University),
141700, Russia, Moscow region, Dolgoprudny, Institutsky lane, 9
The paper was received April 1, 2025.
Abstract. An ultra-wideband antenna based on the offset Mersenne two-mirror system with a horn-lens feed system has been developed and investigated. As a result of numerical modeling using the methods of moments and finite elements as well as optimization of parameters the two-mirror antenna provides a full efficiency 0.5-0.87 in a 9:1 frequency band.
Key words: two-mirror antenna, ultra-wideband antenna, horn-lens feed.
Financing: The work was carried out using budget funding within the framework of the state task 0030-2019-006.
Corresponding author: Nguyen The Thanh, nguen.t@phystech.edu
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For citation:
Kaloshin V.A., Nguyen The Thanh. Ultra-wideband offset dual-reflector antenna with a horn-lens radiation system. // Journal of Radio Electronics. – 2025. – ¹ 4. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2025.4.1 (In Russian)