Generation of Beams from Conventional and Non-Conventional Antennas Using Phase Control

Abstract

Antenna arrays are particularly preferred as they provide flexibility in design, excellent gain and high directivity. They allow optimization via the tapering of amplitude, the special distribution, the phase distribution or their combination providing also the option to generate specific sector and cosec beams for advanced radar applications. The narrow beams obtained from parabolic antennas or from an array of radiators are used to achieve high gain, precise direction finding and high degree of resolution of complex targets. But these narrow beams require multi scans which is highly involved and time consuming. These difficulties can be overcome by providing flat beams which are broad basically.