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What is a leaky wave antenna?

  • A.A guiding structure that radiates continuously along its length
  • B.A waveguide with a fault allowing power to escape at an unintended point
  • C.An antenna in which power leaks back into the feed through poor matching
  • D.A slot array in which each slot is deliberately mismatched to the guide

Answer: A

A leaky wave antenna uses a guide whose wave loses power to radiation steadily as it travels, so the aperture is illuminated progressively and the beam points at an angle set by the phase velocity. Because that velocity depends on frequency, the beam scans as the frequency is tuned, which is used deliberately in some radars. A fault, a mismatch and a deliberately mismatched slot array all describe different situations, though the last is closely related in construction.

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