Array antennas offer a wide range of opportunities in the variation of their directivity patterns through amplitude and phase control. Peak sidelobe levels may be reduced via amplitude control or weighting across the array aperture. Several authors have made significant contributions in detailing processes for synthesizing these aperture amplitude distributions for the purpose of sidelobe level control. One of the basic trade-offs when implementing amplitude weighting functions is that a trade between low sidelobe levels and a loss in main beam directivity always results. Some of the commercially available pattern calculation programs that can implement sidelobe level control do not provide calculations of the aperture efficiencies given different amplitude weightings. Calculation of the aperture efficiency can be somewhat confusing, particularly with regards to the difference between tapering via attenuation versus redistribution. The purpose of this paper is to define these terms, to provide a review of the proper normalization technique that is important in obtaining accurate aperture efficiency estimation. Descriptions of the amplitude tapers and their utility will be presented. A design example will be presented which will compare theoretical efficiencies with those obtained via Finite Element Method simulation.


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    Titel :

    Aperture Efficiency of Amplitude Weighting Distributions for Array Antennas


    Beteiligte:
    Hopkins, Glenn D. (Autor:in) / Ratner, Justin (Autor:in) / Traille, Anya (Autor:in) / Tripp, Vic (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-03-01


    Format / Umfang :

    757421 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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