Evaluation of IsoFilterTM Fidelity in Selected Applications
Authors: Doren W. Hess, Scott McBride
Publication: AMTA 2008
Copyright Owner: NSI-MI Technologies
The IsoFilterTM technique was originally demonstrated to operate by rejecting secondary signals that derive from reflections off of a nearby metallic object – namely, the ground plane surface supporting a small pyramidal horn. The aperture of the horn was located several wavelengths above the ground plane and the sidelobes and backlobes of the horn illuminated the ground plane itself. The success of this demonstration has been sufficient to encourage us to pursue further the question of how well the IsoFilterTM technique will work to suppress other types of secondary signals– such as signals coming from other elements of an array antenna or another individual first-order primary radiator nearby.
Here we report on some of the results of that investigation. We have calculated the far-field patterns of a sparsely populated array and applied the IsoFilterTM technique. The goodness of the suppression is judged by how well the “IsoFiltered” result agrees with the calculated pattern of the individual radiator.