Title | Spherical-Wave-Based Shaped-Beam Field Synthesis for Planar Arrays Including the Mutual Coupling Effects |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Córcoles, J., J. Rubio, and M. A. González |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
Volume | 59 |
Pagination | 2872-2881 |
Date Published | Aug |
ISSN | 0018-926X |
Keywords | antenna feeds, antenna radiated field, antenna radiation patterns, Arrays, electromagnetic coupling, electromagnetic wave scattering, field synthesis method, generalized scattering matrix, GSM, Mutual coupling, mutual coupling effect, pattern field synthesis, planar antenna arrays, planar array, planar array element, Planar arrays, S-matrix theory, Scattering, spherical wave expansion, spherical-wave synthesis procedure, spherical-wave-based shaped-beam field synthesis, translational addition theorem, translational addition theorems, weighted spherical vector wave function |
Abstract | An analytical method to synthesize shaped-beam patterns with planar arrays, based on the handling of spherical waves, is proposed. Translational Addition Theorems will be used here for two different purposes: (1) relating the spherical modes produced by each element in the array to calculate the mutual coupling effects, and (2) expressing the field radiated by each element in terms of spherical modes corresponding to the whole array, to carry out a spherical-wave synthesis procedure based on the orthogonal properties of spherical modes. This field synthesis method is based on the fact that any antenna radiated field can be expressed as a discrete series of weighted spherical vector wave functions and it only requires the a priori knowledge of the Generalized Scattering Matrix of each array element considered as isolated from the rest of the array elements. |
URL | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5871276 |
DOI | 10.1109/TAP.2011.2158950 |