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What is a corrugated horn used for?

  • A.Increasing the gain of a horn without increasing its physical aperture size
  • B.Allowing a horn to operate over two widely separated frequency bands at once
  • C.Reducing the weight of a horn by removing metal from its walls in strips
  • D.Producing a symmetric pattern with very low cross polarisation

Answer: D

Corrugations in the walls support a hybrid mode whose aperture field is nearly rotationally symmetric, so the pattern is the same in every plane and the cross polarisation is very low. That makes them the standard feed for high performance reflectors and for radiometry. They do not raise gain for a given aperture, dual band operation requires other techniques, and the metal removed is incidental. Achieving a desired aperture field by engineering the mode inside the structure is a powerful idea.

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