The present invention provides a feed horn for use in an antenna assembly having a non-circular reflector. The feed horn is capable of transmitting and receiving circularly polarized signals. The feed horn includes a circular waveguide section for connection to a transmitter and receiver of the antenna assembly. A conical waveguide section is connected to an opposed end of the circular waveguide section for creating a smooth transition from the circular waveguide section to a non-circular corrugated waveguide section. The corrugated waveguide section includes a plurality of corrugations that transition for a circular shape adjacent to the conical waveguide section to an increasing non-circular shape at an end proximal to the reflector of the antenna assembly. The corrugations have individuals depths defined in the inner wall of the corrugated waveguide section. These depths compensate circularly polarized signals propagating in the feed horn for distortions due to the non-circular reflector.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/358,164, filed Feb. 20, 2002, entitled CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ELLIPTIC FEED HORN ASSEMBLY the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
An integrated feed horn device including three sets of integrally formed feed horn devices is provided. The integrated feed horn device may receive satellite signals reflected by a single parabolic reflector antenna, wherein the satellite signals are transmitted by three satellites separated by small angles. The integrated feed horn device may comprise a first waveguide, a second waveguide and a third waveguide, wherein the first waveguide, the second waveguide and the third waveguide may be adopted for receiving a first satellite signal, a second satellite signal, and a third satellite signal. Each of the satellite signals described above is transmitted by different satellites.
A dual band antenna with a corrugated feed horn comprises a waveguide and a feed horn assembly. The feed horn assembly comprises at least two portions. Two portions each have at least a cylindrical ring and a groove, in which the groove is between two cylindrical rings. By means of adjusting a depth and width of the grooves and a walls width and number of loops of the cylindrical rings of two portions causes each portion responds to different frequency band electromagnetic signal separately and thereby can be adapted to receive radio signals in at least two frequency bands electromagnetic signals. Therefore, this single antenna can be adapted to receive radio signals in two frequency bands. The antenna can effectively reduce manufacturing cost and save space.
A feed assembly for an antenna having a non-circular reflector, in which the feed assembly includes a feed horn capable of correcting the distortions of circularly polarized signals caused by the non-circular reflector profile, and wherein the feed horn is coupled with a polarizer that is field-switchable between linear and circular polarization modes of operation. The feed assembly can include a second receive-only feed located in close proximity to the feed horn for communication with adjacent satellites.
