Synthesis of sub-arrayed monopulse planar arrays by means of an innovative matching method

Author

Manica, L. ; Rocca, P. ; Massa, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Univ. of Trento, Trento

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Planar antenna arrays are widely used as transmitting and receiving part of monopulse trackers because of the need to generate sum and difference radiation modes to estimate the angular location of an unknown target. In such a framework, this paper presents an innovative synthesis technique able to synthesize two orthogonal sub-arrayed difference patterns close to an optimal reference one. The proposed numerical results assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach also dealing with large arrays.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; planar antenna arrays; innovative matching method; innovative synthesis technique; monopulse trackers; orthogonal subarrayed difference patterns; planar antenna arrays; subarrayed monopulse planar arrays; Antenna arrays; Circuit synthesis; Communications technology; Electronic mail; Feeds; Network synthesis; Pattern matching; Planar arrays; Target tracking; Transmission line matrix methods; contiguous partition; excitation matching; monopulse antennas; planar arrays; sub-arraying; sum-difference pattern synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2008.4720910

Filename

4720910