Efficient Synthesis of Filter-and-Sum Array With Scanned Wideband Frequency-Invariant Beam Pattern and Space-Frequency Notching

Publisher:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2021, pp. 1-1
Issue Date:
2021-01-01
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IEEE This work generalizes the Fourier transform (FT)-based frequency-invariant beamforming (FIB) method to the synthesis of scanned frequency-invariant (FI) beam pattern with space-frequency notching for an array with non-isotropic elements. Wideband FI pattern characteristics are described by using multiple reference sub-band FI patterns that are obtained through an iterative single-frequency FT-based synthesis method. By applying fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the combination of these multiple reference sub-band FI patterns, a wideband excitation distribution can be generated. Based on this excitation distribution, we construct a new wideband excitation distribution that is conjugate-symmetric about zero frequency, so that real-valued finite-impulse-response (FIR) filter coefficients can be obtained by applying FFT on the constructed distribution. Two numerical examples are introduced to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method for synthesizing scanned FI beam patterns with complicated notching requirements.
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