A single objective approach for suppressing sideband radiations of ultra-low side lobe patterns in time-modulated antenna arrays

S.K. Mandal, G.K. Mahanti and Rowdra Ghatak

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2013, vol. 27, issue 14, 1767-1775

Abstract: In this paper, a novel optimization method based on single objective, that is, minimization of sideband radiation (SBR) of ultra-low side lobe, narrow beam patterns in time modulated antenna arrays (TMAAs) is proposed. The proposed method utilizes the weighting vectors of the low side lobe Dolph-Chebyshev/Taylor series patterns as the dynamic excitation coefficients of the desired pattern at fundamental radiation. Differential evolution algorithm is employed to distribute the static amplitudes and switch-on time durations in such a way that in the optimization process, dynamic excitation distribution remains the same. Static amplitudes are perturbed in a predefined search range of (0.25, 1), whereas the weighted values of switch-on time durations are obtained by dividing dynamic excitation coefficients by static amplitudes. The technique greatly simplifies the difficulties of multi-objective TMAA synthesizing problem by reducing it to a single-objective optimization problem. Numerical examples for a 32-element linear array are presented to produce ultra low side lobe Taylor and Dolph-Chebyshev pattern with low value of maximum sideband radiation (SBRmax). The optimization results of the proposed method are also compared with those obtained by other optimization techniques, which have been reported previously.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2013.823360

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