Antennas and Waveguides
Antennas and Waveguides
Antennas and Waveguides
3)A special type of transmission line that consists of a conducting metallic tube through
which high-frequency electromagnetic energy is propagated.
Waveguide
4)Electrical energy that has escaped into free space in the form of
transverseelectromagnetic waves
Radio Waves
5)The plane parallel to the mutually perpendicular lines of the electric and magnetic fields.
Wavefront
7)Antenna wherein two conductors are spread out in a straight line to a total length of one
quarter wavelength.
Quarter Wave Antenna
10)A special coupling device that can be used to direct the transmit and receive signals
and provide the necessary isolation.
Diplexer
11)A polar diagram or graph representing field strengths or power densities at various
angular positions relative to an antenna.
Radiation Pattern
13)Radiation pattern plots field strength or power density with respect to the value at a
reference
Relative Radiation
19)The ratio of the front lobe power to the back lobe power.
Front to Back Ratio
21)The line bisecting the major lobe, or pointing from the center of the antenna in the
direction of maximum radiation.
Line of Shoot or Point of Shoot
25)It is defined as an equivalent transmit power. It stands for Effective Isotropic Radiated
Power.
EIRP
26)The equivalent power that an isotropic antenna would have to radiate to achieve the
same power density in the chosen direction at a given point as another antenna.
Effective Radiated Power (ERP) or (EIRP)
27)The power density in space and the actual power that a receive antenna produces at
its output terminals.
Captured Power Density
30)The relationship of captured power to the received power density and the effective
capture area of the received antenna.
Directly Proportional
31)It refers to the orientation of the electric field radiated from the antenna.
Polarization
32)The angular separation between the two half-power (-3dB) points on the major lobe of
an antenna's plane radiation pattern.
Antenna Beamwidth
38)Hertz antenna is name after him and he was the first to demonstrate the existence
of electromagnetic waves.
Heinrich Hertz
39)A single pole antenna one quarter wavelength long, mounted vertically with the lower
end either connected directly to ground or grounded through the antenna coupling
network.
Marconi Antenna
42)A coil added in series with a dipole antenna which effectively increases antenna's
electrical length.
Loading Coil
43)A loading coil approximately increases the radiation resistance of the antenna.
5 Ohms
45)Its purpose is to increase the directivity and concentrate the radiated power within a
smaller geographic area.
Array
46)Elements that are directly connected to the transmission line and receive power from the
source.
Driven
47)Elements are not connected to the transmission line; they receive energy only through
mutual induction with a driven element.
Parasitic
48)A parasitic element that is shorter that its associated driven element.
Director
51)A widely used antenna commonly uses a folded dipole as the driven element and
named after two Japanese scientists.
Yagi Uda
55)A broadband VHF or UHF antenna that is ideally suited for applications for which
radiating circular rather than horizontal or vertical polarizedelectromagnetic waves are
required.
Modes of propagation:
Normal
Axial
Helical Antenna
57)Antenna that provides extremely high gain and directivity and are very popular for
microwave and satellite communications link.
Two main part
Parabolic Reflector
Feed Mechanism
Parabolic Reflector Antenna
58)The effective area in a receiving parabolic antenna and is always less than the actual
mouth area.
Capture Area