A GO/FO Tool for Analyzing Quasi-optical Systems in Reception

In this work, a MATLAB based graphical user interface (GUI) tool is built to analyze Quasi-optical (QO) systems in reception with the Fourier Optics (FO) and Geometrical Optics (GO) methods. Five canonical QO components are discussed, namely parabolic reflectors, elliptical lenses, hemispherical lenses, hyperbolic lenses, and elliptical mirrors....

The Observable Field: On the estimation of the available power for antennas in reception

In this work the portion of the incident field that can be received by an antenna is investigated: the observable field. This field can be characterized only relying on the volume allocated to the antenna and thus independently from the specific antenna. The observable field is composed by a single spherical wave that first converges in the...