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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2003
Kenneth W. Brown, Yucaipa, AZ (US);
James R. Gallivan, Pomona, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Brown, Yucaipa, AZ (US);
James R. Gallivan, Pomona, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An amplifier including a monolithic semiconductor substrate and an array disposed on said substrate for coherently receiving and retransmitting electromagnetic energy. The array is implemented with a plurality of cells. Each of the cells includes a dual polarization antenna structure for receiving electromagnetic energy and an amplifier connected thereto. The amplifier may include an ortho-mode feed and a reflective amplifier array adapted to be illuminated by the feed with an input wavefront with a first polarization and to return thereto an amplified wavefront with a second polarization orthogonal to the first wavefront. First and second shaped mirrors may be incorporated for illuminating the array with a planar wavefront and converting the reflected planar wavefront to a spherical wavefront.