Circularly Polarized Antenna Technology

The book presents basic and advanced concepts of circularly polarized antennas, including design procedure and recent applications. Cross dipole antennas, microstrip antennas, helical antennas, quadrifilar helix antennas, frequency independent antennas, horn antennas, omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas and radial line arry antennas are discussed. With abundant examples, the book is an essential reference for researchers and engineers.

• Introduces fundamental theories and techniques of circularly polarized antennas
• Combines theories with practical examples and applications
• Of interest to both researchers and industrial engineers
  

Yufeng Wang, No.36　Research　Institute　of　CETC, Shanghai, China

Tabel of Contents
Chapter 1 Antenna parameters
1.1 Radiation power density and Radiation intensity
1.2 Directivity and Gain
1.3 Beam solid angle
1.4 Field regions
1.5 Patterns
1.6 Effective length and effective area
1.7 Antenna impedance
1.8 Band width
1.9 Polarization
1.10 Equivalent radiation power
1.11 Fires transmission formula
1.12 Receiving antenna
Reference
Chapter 2 Theoretical basis of antenna polarization
2.1 Polarization properties of wave
2.2 Polarization ellipse angle
2.3 Axial ratio
2.4 Polarization ratio
2.5 Circularly polarized component synthesis
2.6 Polarization loss
2.7 Cross polarization
2.8 Circularly polarized antenna
Chapter 3 Cross dipole circular polarized antennas
3.1 Cross dipole antenna
3.2 Self phase shifted cross dipole antenna fed by Balun
3.3 Printed self phase shifted cross dipole antenna
3.4 Wide band cross dipole circular polarized antenna
References
Chapter 4 Microstrip circularly polarized antennas
4.1 Principle and realization method of microstrip circular
4.2 Circular polarized microstrip antenna with single probefeed
4.3 Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with single probe feed
4.4 Circularly polarized microstrip antenna with microstrip line feed
4.5 Circular polarized microstrip antenna with networkfeed
References
Chapter 5 Helical antennas
5.1 Basic structure of helical antenna
5.2 Axial mode helical antenna
5.3 Modified axial mode helical antenna
5.4 Helicalantenna with back cavity
5.5 Normal mode helical antenna
5.6 Multi arm helical antenna
Chapter 6 Quadrifilarhelix antennas
6.1 Principle of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.2 Parameters analysis of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.3 Realization of quadrifilarhelix antenna
6.4 Research direction of quadrifilarhelix antenna
References
Chapter 7 Frequency independent circularly polarizedantennas
7.1 Principle of frequency independentantennas
7.2 Planar Archimedes spiral antenna
7.3 The planar equiangular spiral antenna
7.4 Conical log spiral antenna
7.5 Other types offrequency independentantennas
References
Chapter 8 Circular polarized horn antennas
8.1 Circular polarizer type
8.2 Commonhorn antenna
8.3 Circular polarized horn antenna design
References
Chapter 9 Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas
9.1 Omnidirectional radiation with circular array of directional circularly polarized antenna element
9.2 Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennarrayed with omnidirectional radiation elements
9.3 Other forms of omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas
References
Chapter 10 Circularly polarized radial line array antenna
10.1 Structure and basic principle of radial line antenna
10.2 Design of circular polarized radial line array antenna
References