Automated synthesis of shaped beam antenna patterns with implied cross coupling

In the following a numerical method to synthesize arbitrary antenna beamshapes of a phase and amplitude controlled array is described. A 25 year old method by Orchard, Elliot et al. is extended to include cross coupling between array elements as well as the single element characteristics. It is shown that the resulting beamshape provides a closer fitting to the desired beamshape function than the original approach at a reasonable computational burden.