Asymptotic Analysis of Scattering for Finite Periodic Reflectarray/Transmitarray Antennas in the Near-Zone Focused Radiations

This paper presents the asymptotic formulation of ray fields in the decomposition of electromagnetic (EM) scattering mechanisms from a one-dimensional, semi-infinite and periodic array when it is illuminated by a line source. This technique can be applied to analyze the passive FSS (frequency selective surface) type periodic structure with identical elements, or the reflectarray and transmitarray type antennas that are phased to radiate EM fields focused in the near zone of the array aperture. The solutions are built up based on the Floquet mode expansion of the scattering fields, and are obtained by asymptotically evaluating the resulted integrals to express the fields in terms of reflected/transmitted and edge diffracted fields as previously addressed in the framework of uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD).