Sidelobe control in cylindrical arrays
Abstract
Low sidelobe patterns in cylindrical arrays are synthesized through the use of an artificially created noise source environment. Pattern/excitation pairs are generated by an exact formal process which optimizes the array performance. For symmetric patterns this process minimizes the signal-to-noise power ratio. For optimum antisymmetric patterns the on-axis boresight error is minimized. Sidelobe levels and rate of decay are controlled by proper selection of the angular variation of the noise amplitude.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TAP.1982.1142903
- Bibcode:
- 1982ITAP...30.1027S
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Arrays;
- Sidelobes;
- Synthetic Arrays;
- Apertures;
- Linear Arrays;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Communications and Radar