Coupled-Oscillator Based Active-Array Antennas

Acknowledgments

The work of R. Pogorzelski reported here was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with additional funding from the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). Dr. Pogorzelski gratefully acknowledges support from the NASA/JPL Office of the Chief Scientist and Chief Technologist for the writing of this book. He further wishes to acknowledge the contribution of his co-workers at JPL as represented by their co-authorship of many of the references included here. In addition, he thanks Dr. Vahraz Jamnejad of JPL for helpful discussions concerning causality and coupling delay and Mr. Robert J. Beckon of JPL for his help with the cover graphic. Many of the results described here were either obtained or checked using Mathematica™ by Wolfram Research, Inc. (Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.)

The work of A. Georgiadis has been supported by the Juan de la Cierva Program 2004, the Torres Quevedo Grant PTQ-06-02-0555, project TEC2008-02685/TEC on Novel Architectures for Reconfigurable Reflectarrays and Phased Array Antennas (NARRA) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation Spain, and the European COST Action ...