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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian Scott, Norfolk, GB;
Bernd Rümmeli, 24159 Kiel-Friedrichsort, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01D 1/17 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01D 1/17 ;
Abstract
A device is disclosed for converting a circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation into linearly polarized electromagnetic radiation. The device includes a depolarizer with depolarizing elements supported in a polarization mode converter for rotation between a vertical output and a horizontal output. A depolarization position for circularly polarized radiation exists between the horizontal output and the vertical output. The rotation direction of the depolarizer can be adjusted to selectively direct left-handed circularly polarized and right-handed circularly polarized radiation either to the vertical or the horizontal output.