Electric Dipole Antenna in Presence of a Double Wire-Mesh Planar Interference Filter

In this letter, we derive a new full-wave analytical field solution for the problem of two separated planar thin-wire meshes excited by a short horizontal electric dipole (HED). Both meshes are constructed from identical perfectly conducting parallel wires with small period (interwire spacing) compared to wavelength. A fast-converging solution is obtained employing averaged boundary conditions and image theory approach. A set of computed near- and far-field patterns is presented.