PATTERN MEASUREMENT OF X-BAND STANDARD GAIN HORN ANTENNA USING PHOTONIC SENSOR AND PLANAR NEAR FIELD SCANNING TECHNIQUE

摘要

We have measured the amplitude and the phase of the electric field on a planar area very near (about 0.3 wavelengths) to the aperture of a X-band standard gain horn antenna using a photonic sensor and transformed the aperture field distribution to the far field pattern. The measured aperture field distributions and antenna patterns agreed well with those calculated by the method of moments. Comparing the far field patterns by the photonic sensor and the conventional open-ended rectangular waveguide probe reveals that the antenna measurement using the photonic sensor has advantages over the conventional probe.