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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1979
Anthony R Noerpel, Long Branch, NJ (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a hybrid mode waveguide or feedhorn antenna for transforming the TE.sub.11 mode into the HE.sub.11 mode. The waveguide or antenna comprises a first waveguide section of uniform cross-section at the TE.sub.11 mode entrance port which in the antenna arrangement changes to a second section which flares outward toward the antenna mouth, and a spiro-helical projection bonded with a dielectric layer to the inner surface of the waveguide or antenna. The spiro-helical projection comprises a closely spaced helically wound wire structure formed of dielectrically coated wires which in the first section decrease in gauge size in small adjacent portions thereof as the helix progresses away from the TE.sub.11 mode entrance port and in the remainder of the helical projection, the same or decreasing gauge wire in adjacent portions can be used.