A significant challenge for dual-beam, codesigned systems, such as for simultaneous radar and communications transmission, has been identified as the spurious beams produced by spatial intermodulation from nonlinearities in the transmitter power amplifier. We demonstrate that tuning the load impedance of the power amplifiers can reverse the elementwise power amplifier nonlinear distortion, reducing the magnitude of the unwanted beam transmissions and restoring the integrity of the dual-beam antenna pattern for application to an active electronically scanned array. A comparison to a recently documented predistortion approach for correcting spurious transmissions is provided, and it is shown that impedance tuning can address both element output power and linearity, whereas predistortion addresses only the linearity issue and causes the amplifier gain in many of the array elements to suffer. For multiple dual-beam angle scenarios, simulation results show that impedance tuning is effective at maximizing beam power in both beam directions, maximizing current gain in the element power amplifiers, and minimizing the size of the unwanted spurious beams.


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    Title :

    Spurious Beam Suppression in Dual-Beam Phased Array Transmission by Impedance Tuning


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    Publication date :

    2022-10-01


    Size :

    3667635 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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