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Exercise 6.1.5: Microwave power beaming

About the further exercises of Section 6.1

Seventeen further exercises in the spirit of the problems, the home exercises and the worked examples, graded from easy to harder within each group. Exercises 6.1.1–6.1.4 are about uniform plane waves, , , and the triad, Exercises 6.1.5–6.1.6 about power, energy and loss, Exercises 6.1.7–6.1.10 about polarisation, Exercises 6.1.11–6.1.12 about the Doppler effect, and Exercises 6.1.13–6.1.17 mix power, exposure and polarisation. Besides the relations listed at the head of this subsection they use the lossy forms , , and (Exercise 6.1.6 only), the average energy density , Faraday's law , and the polarisation match . A field factor is .

Exercise 6.1.5

Microwave power beaming

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A power beam arrives at a receiving panel as an RHCP uniform plane wave with . (a) Find , the amplitude of each field component and the amplitude of . (b) Find the energy density and check that . (c) The panel, of area , has its normal at to . Find the power intercepted, and the power collected when its elements are linear dipoles and when they are RHCP patches. (d) What peak field would a linearly polarised beam of the same have?

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Problem 6.1.4

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