A novel phase-only method for shaped beam synthesis and adaptive nulling

A new method for phase-only synthesis of linear array antennas is proposed. The phase distribution of the array excitation can be described by a weighted sum of proper basis functions. By optimizing the weights of this sum, rather than the phase of each element, the problem becomes almost independent of the size of the array. The present work shows that with this method both beam shaping and interference nulling can be achieved. The very fast convergence of the optimization makes it suitable even for real-time applications.