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Are cantor arrays effective for designing thinned arrays?
Author(s) -
Raveu N.,
Aubert H.,
Legay H.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.21855
Subject(s) - beamwidth , side lobe , broadside , microwave , genetic algorithm , acoustics , optics , computer science , physics , algorithm , mathematics , telecommunications , mathematical optimization , antenna (radio)
Cantor distributions of identical radiating apertures allow the design of low side‐lobe arrays (see Puente‐Baliarda and Pous, Antennas Propagat 44 (1996) 730–739). However we show here that Cantor arrays that achieve both a desired beamwidth in the broadside direction and a given peak side‐lobe level for any main beam direction (scanning application) present a minimum number of radiating elements that is generally higher than that of thinned arrays designed by means of a genetic algorithm. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 2041–2043, 2006; Published online in Wiley Inter‐Science (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21855