Phase-Only Beam Broadening of Contiguous Uniform Subarrayed Arrays
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- MRSL Real-Time Systems Lab., Monterey, CA (United States)
In modern antenna systems, beam broadening of subarrayed arrays provides continuous coverage of a wide angular extent in a cost-effective manner. While many methods have been published that address beam broadening of traditional (non-subarrayed) arrays, there is a knowledge gap in the published literature with respect to efficient beam broadening of contiguous uniform subarrayed arrays. This article presents efficient methods for beam broadening of contiguous uniform subarrayed arrays where the excitation of each element is not individually controlled, but the elements of the array are grouped together as subarrays to have the same element excitations. Particularly, this article focuses on phase-only optimization to preserve maximum power output. Additionally, three modilied iterative Fourier transform (IFT) methods and one genetic algorithm (GA) are presented to efliciently search the vast solution space of possible phase settings for a solution that satislies the desired broadened pattern. These methods are evaluated on idealized 1 x 40 and 1 x 80 linear arrays with live element subarrays and 40 x 40 and 80 x 80 element rectangular arrays with 5 x 5 element subarrays. The proposed modilied IFT methods are found to be faster than the GA approach, while the GA approach only offers a few percentage points of better effectiveness.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1747019
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 56; ISSN 0018-9251
- Publisher:
- IEEECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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