Analysis of curvilinear dipoles and their arrays with finite reflectors

Although straight wire dipoles are widely used in antenna engineering, their gains are lower than curvilinear dipoles. For this reason, many researchers studied curvilinear dipoles and their arrays, but the front-to-back ratio of the curvilinear dipoles without reflectors are very high. So professor F.M. Landstorfer put a circular reflector behind the curvilinear dipoles to diminish the backward radiation, and obtained some experimental results. But so far, the theoretical results of curvilinear dipoles and their arrays with finite reflectors have not been seen. In this paper, an integral-differential equation for arbitrarily shaped wire antennas with finite reflectors is derived, the properties of Gaussian shaped dipoles and their arrays are analyzed by solving this equation by the moment method.<>