IMPULSE RESPONSES OF APERTURE ANTENNAS WITH ARBITRARY APERTURE DISTRIBUTIONS

On the basis of the equation of Fresnel-Kirchhoff scalar diffraction field, it is shown that the impulse responses of parallel-fed aperture antennas of arbitrary configurations with arbitrary aperture amplitude distributions and those of end-fed rectangular aperture antennas with arbitrary aperture amplitude distributions can all be expressed in the aperture amplitude distributions, and that the impulse responses of rectangular aperture antennas with separable aperture distributions and those of circular aperture antennas with circularly symmetric distributions are special cases of the above general ones.