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Why is the aperture field of a horn not uniform across its mouth?

  • A.The feed probe is placed off centre and so illuminates one side more
  • B.Diffraction at the mouth redistributes the field before it leaves the horn
  • C.The waveguide mode has a sinusoidal amplitude variation across the guide
  • D.The metal walls absorb power unevenly along the length of the flare

Answer: C

The dominant rectangular waveguide mode has a half sine amplitude distribution across the broad wall, and the flare carries that distribution to the aperture, giving a natural taper in one plane and a near uniform distribution in the other. That asymmetry is why a simple pyramidal horn has different beamwidths and side lobes in the two planes. Wall absorption is negligible, the probe is centred, and diffraction acts beyond the aperture rather than within it.

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