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Half-power point

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In practice there is no high-pass with infinite bandwidth. All high-passes are bandpasses, but, if properly designed, with the upper half-point so high that it does not affect the application.
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of a filter or amplifier is usually defined as the difference between the lower and upper half-power points. This is, therefore, also known as the
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does not relate to frequency: instead, it describes the extent in space of an antenna beam. The half-power point is the angle off
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The beamwidth can be computed for arbitrary antenna arrays. Defining the array manifold as the complex response of the
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E. Tuncer and B. Friedlander (Editors), "Classical and Modern Direction-of-Arrival Estimation", Academic Press, 2009.
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bandwidth. There is no lower half-power point for a low-pass amplifier, so the bandwidth is measured relative to
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Beamwidth is usually but not always expressed in degrees and for the horizontal plane. It refers to the
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of the filter's nominal passband voltage and the power has dropped by half. A
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has dropped to half of its peak value; that is, at a level of approximately
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exist, such as the distance between nulls and distance between first
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at which the antenna gain first falls to half power (approximately
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and relates to measurement position as an angle and describes
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Index

power
dB
filters
optical filters
electronic amplifiers
cutoff frequency
antennas
directionality
voltage
bandpass
low-pass
high-pass
bandwidth
DC
stopband
transition band
Beam width

boresight
main lobe
effective radiated power
beam width
side lobes
Antenna aperture
Angular resolution
Full width at half maximum



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