The Sources Reconstruction Method for Antenna Diagnostics and Imaging Applications

The advances on communications systems require more challenging antenna designs, in‐ creasing the complexity of design, manufacturing, and testing stages. Different sources of er‐ ror may affect the antenna final prototype, degrading its performance, and then requiring a re-design step to identify and correct these manufacturing errors. In general, this re-design step requires invasive techniques based on trial-error procedure, whose technical and eco‐ nomical costs are directly related to the antenna complexity. For this reason, the develop‐ ment of fast and accurate non-invasive methods for antenna faults detection (antenna diagnostics) has been of great interest in the last decade.