NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF A HELICAL ANTENNA LOADED BY A DIELECTRIC RESONATOR

A helical antenna loaded by a dielectric resonator (DR) is rigorously studied. Effects due to the dielectric core are analyzed by replacing it with an equivalent polarization current density so that only the ho mogeneous dyadic Green's function is required. Special interest is pai d to the handling of the singularity of the dyadic Green's function in the source region. Two coupled integral equations are obtained by enf orcing the boundary condition on the surface of the helical antenna an d by equating the total electric field inside the dielectric resonator . The method of moments is used to solve the coupled equations and hen ce to obtain other properties of the antenna, such as the input impeda nce, the radiation pattern, the beam width characteristics, and the ax ial ratio. Experimental measurements were conducted and compared with the theoretical results. It is found that excellent agreement is obser ved between theoretical values and experimental measurements. Various characteristics of the dielectric resonator loaded antenna are also di scussed.