Active antennas have been in use in communications satellites for decades. The antenna configurations include array-fed reflectors, multiple-beam lenses and direct radiating phased arrays. The active feedings of the antennas include single amplifier per radiating element and matrix power amplifiers shared between clusters of radiating elements. This paper reviews the combinations of antenna con...

In this work, the method of iterative Fourier transform phase reconstruction, conventionally used in holography and optical image reconstruction, is applied to phase only synthesis of antenna patterns. The method is applied to two types of pattern synthesis problems: "main lobe beam shaping" and "side-lobe-level reduction". The proposed method is most useful in the efficient employment of attai...

Linear and planar antenna arrays are synthesized to have maximum directivity for a specified sidelobe level. The directivity is maximized subject to a given SLL. The beamwidth and the zeros of array factor are studied as well as the directivity. Maximum directivity-arrays are compared through some examples with super-directive, uniform, Dolph-Chebyshev and Riblet-Chebychev arrays to find a comp...

A method for increasing the bandwidth of microstrip array antenna by adding additional resonator, which is directly – coupled to the non – radiating edges of a radiating element is narrated. The experimental result of four elements non-radiating edge directly – coupled rectangular microstrip array antenna (FNCRMAA) shows wide band with bandwidth of 15.63 %. Further extending the elements of arr...

In this paper, approach to incoherent signal detection in multi-element antenna array are researched and modeled. Two types of useful signals with unknown wavefront were considered: first one, deterministic (Barker code), and second one, random (Gaussian distribution). The derivation of the sufficient statistics took into account the linearity of the antenna array. The performance characteristi...

Design of thinned elliptical antenna arrays of uniformly excited isotropic antennas using particle swarm optimization (PSO), is reported. Thinned arrays can generate directive beam with minimum side lobe level (SLL) without degrading the performance of fully populated antenna arrays significantly. Thinning of elliptical antenna arrays using PSO are optimized with different values of eccentricit...