Numerical Aspects of the Application of Ray-Tracing to Geodesic Lenses Show others and affiliations
2022 (English) In: 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper presents a model developed to numerically determine the radiation pattern presented by a given geodesic lens. A simplified model describing the trajectory of a TEM-mode wave through the lens was required as a time-efficient alternative to commercial software. Geometrical optics have been used to approximate the ray trajectory from the source to the aperture of the lens. The power conservation in ray tubes is then used to evaluate the amplitude of the electric field in the aperture, knowing the distribution at the source. The Kirchhoff diffraction formula is finally numerically approximated to evaluate the farfield. Three examples have been simulated with our algorithm and compared with full-wave simulations. We demonstrate that our assumptions provide a good agreement with full-wave simulation while reducing significantly the computation time, thus providing an efficient method for design optimization. Most notably, this more general formulation may be extended to non-rotationally symmetric lenses.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022.
Series
Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, ISSN 2164-3342
Keywords [en]
Geodesic Lenses, Luneburg Lens, Ray-Tracing, Geometrical Optics
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316286 ISI: 000815113902200 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130630628 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316286 DiVA, id: diva2:1686990
Conference 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), MAR 27-APR 01, 2022, Madrid, Spain
Note QC 20220812
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-88-31299-04-6
2022-08-122022-08-122022-08-12 Bibliographically approved