Higher order modes can exist in the corrugated horn if the corrugations are initiated at a position from the throat such that the separation between the two walls exceeds3/2 λ. These modes then produce patterns which are now frequency-dependent and in one case have exceptionally low sidelobes.
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Bahret et al. (1968) studied this question.
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