Single- and Dual-Band Multimode Hard Horn Antennas With Partly Corrugated Walls

We introduce a partly corrugated hard horn, consisting of a smooth-walled horn with an attached longitudinally corrugated outer section. This alleviates the problems with the manufacturing when the longitudinal corrugations extend into the throat of the horn. The transition between the inner smooth walled part and the outer corrugated part is abrupt. This is used and controlled to design better and shorter single-band horns than otherwise possible. Furthermore, it enables the design of dual-band horns with low cross-polarization and high gain, for multifunction use at Ka-band with transmit and receive frequencies in the same antenna. Measurements on a model of such a dual-band horn are presented and discussed.