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Which quantity does a taper across an aperture principally control?

  • A.The impedance presented by the feed to the transmitter driving it
  • B.The polarisation of the wave radiated in the main beam direction
  • C.The side lobe level of the radiated pattern
  • D.The direction in which the main beam of the antenna points

Answer: C

Amplitude tapering softens the aperture edge and so lowers the side lobes, at the cost of a wider beam and reduced effective area. Beam direction is set by the phase distribution, impedance by the feed and its match, and polarisation by the orientation of the aperture fields. Sorting which aperture variable controls which pattern property makes an unfamiliar specification readable, because each requirement then points at the part of the design that must satisfy it.

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