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What is aperture holography used for?

  • A.Determining the impedance match of the feed without disconnecting it
  • B.Finding the surface errors of a reflector from its measured pattern
  • C.Recording a three dimensional image of the antenna structure for documentation
  • D.Measuring the polarisation purity of an aperture across its whole bandwidth

Answer: B

Transforming a measured far field pattern back to the aperture plane recovers the phase distribution across the reflector, and departures from a plane wave map directly onto surface errors. Panels can then be adjusted by the amounts the map shows. It is the standard method for setting large radio telescope surfaces. Documentation imaging, polarisation measurement and impedance testing are unrelated tasks. The technique is a neat example of the aperture to far field transform being used in the reverse direction.

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