Analogies between theories of antenna arrays and passive networks

This paper demonstrates the analogy between two different fields, antenna arrays and passive networks, which are generally not known to each other. Successful application, either directly or with modification, of various known techniques for synthesizing a passive network when an impulse response is specified, to the synthesis of linear antenna arrays with amplitude excitations, phase distributions, and element spacings as the controlling parameters when a desired radiation pattern is given, is presented with many examples. Providing the antenna array theorists with information known to circuit theorists and vice-versa, this paper may be helpful to both groups.