Noted at this time, the effort described below is limited to the unique reflective qualities of the Parabola or Paraboloid regardless of reflected wave form. It assumes the following unless specified otherwise: a constrained nominal parabola vertex (origin) and focus; planar wave front normal to the axis of rotation; a point source focus emanating a spherical wave front; a reflected spherical wave front from any discrete point on the Paraboloid surface. Therefore, best case scenarios are represented (i.e., an “as measured” surface may possess worse performance characteristics, but not better). Additionally noted, the use of Parabola (2D) and Paraboloid (3D)...
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