Research Article

Effect of Surface Error Distribution and Aberration on Electromagnetic Performance of a Reflector Antenna

Table 5

The result of effect of the normalized Seidel wavefront aberrations on EMP.

Seidel termLoss (dB)Offset (″)ΔSLD (dB)Aberration
0 cut90 cut0 cut90 cut0 cut-L0 cut-R90 cut-L90 cut-R

0-0.37-95.20-4.240.40.4Tilt
-0.19-0.19002.42.44.34.3Focus
-0.19-0.1900770.60.6Astigmatism
-0.03-0.25-81.604.6-7.4-0.2-0.2Coma
-0.23-0.23001.91.92.62.6Spherical