Ka-Band USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Antenna

An all-metallic bull's eye antenna resembling the Enterprise (NCC-1701) Star Trek starship is reported with record side lobe levels (SLLs). The reduced SLLs are achieved by exciting the leaky-wave antenna via a resonant slot with effective out-of-plane electric dipole moment that inhibits the broadside space wave responsible for the relative high SLLs in other bull's eye designs.