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The geometrical theory of diffraction for axially symmetric reflectors

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In this article, the authors present analytical, computational, and experimental results for commonly encountered reflector geometries, both to illustrate the general principles and to present a compact summary of generally applicable formulas.
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The geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) (cf. [1], for example) may be applied advantageously to many axially symmetric reflector antenna geometries. The material in this communication presents analytical, computational, and experimental results for commonly encountered reflector geometries, both to illustrate the general principles and to present a compact summary of generally applicable formulas.

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A uniform geometrical theory of diffraction for an edge in a perfectly conducting surface

TL;DR: In this article, a compact dyadic diffraction coefficient for electromagnetic waves obliquely incident on a curved edse formed by perfectly conducting curved plane surfaces is obtained, which is based on Keller's method of the canonical problem, which in this case is the perfectly conducting wedge illuminated by cylindrical, conical, and spherical waves.
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Diffraction by an Aperture

TL;DR: In this paper, the geometrical theory of diffraction was introduced to account for diffraction by introducing new rays called diffracted rays, which are produced when incident rays hit the aperture edge.
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Reflector antenna radiation pattern analysis by equivalent edge currents

TL;DR: In this paper, the edge currents derived from the edge diffraction theory for a halfplane were used to obtain the radiation patterns of a parabeloidal reflector antenna when illuminated by a source at the focus.
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Asymptotic evaluation of the field at a caustic

TL;DR: In this article, the geometrical optics field is obtained for a plane wave incident on a parabolic cylinder, where the wave is obtained in its lowest order at the focus and in the neighborhood of the focus.
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