TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING - 2009 Vol. 68,
No 10 		 

 

 

 

Development of Microwave Bootlace Lens for Multiple Beam Forming

P.K. Singhal, D. Milland, R.N. Baral and Ravi Pratap Singh Kushwah
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior-474 005, India

P.C. Sharma
S.D. Bansal College of Engineering, Indore, India

Abstract
A compact bootlace lens has been developed. Two dimensional electromagnetic field analysis of the developed bootlace lens has been carried out using the contour integral approach. The measured results are in close agreement with the simulated results.

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