Computation of modal coupling effects in meandered long-slot leaky-wave antennas
2016 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology, ICWITS 2016 and System and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, ACES 2016 - Proceedings
- Fecha: 04 mayo 2016
- ISBN: 9781509012596
- Tipo de fuente: Ponencia
- DOI: 10.1109/ROPACES.2016.7465420
- Tipo de documento: Documento de conferencia
- Editorial: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
© 2016 IEEE. This paper shows how the coupling between different leaky modes can be efficiently computed, to accurately obtain its effect on the radiation pattern of tapered leaky-wave antennas. The particular case of meander-long-slot rectangular waveguide antenna is analyzed, illustrating the coupling between the main perturbed waveguide leaky mode and the undesired channel-guide leaky mode. Dispersion analysis of both modes must be carried out as a function of frequency and also as a function of the tapered geometry, to efficiently compute the effect of this coupling in the performance of this type of antennas.