Abstract
Reflector and horn antennas find extensive use over a wide range of applications such as communications, radioastronomy, remote sensing, medicine, and industry. The ever-increasing use of the electromagnetic spectrum has for some time now required methods of adapting or designing antennas to reduce the possible interference between the wanted and undesired signals. Over the years many techniques have been proposed and a number of methods have received acceptance and appear in general use. They fall into two broad categories:
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general reduction of sidelobes; and
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gain reduction in specific narrow directions, in effect, null placement in the radiation patterns.
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Kerdemelidis, V., James, G.L., Smith, B.A. (1990). Some Methods of Reducing the Sidelobe Radiation of Existing Reflector and Horn Antennas. In: Kritikos, H.N., Jaggard, D.L. (eds) Recent Advances in Electromagnetic Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3330-5_8
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