124 Pattern Synthesis for Linear and Planar Arrays

The beamwidth is thus a constant /3o times the "standard beamwidth" AIL.
Although the idealized pattern is unrealizable, Taylor recognized that by selecting
a new function with near zeros very close to those of the ideal pattern (3.27), but
with far zeros corresponding to those of the sin TTZI(TTZ) function at integer values
of z, he could satisfy the requirement on both near and far sidelobes. Taylor chose to
keep all nulls at the integer location for \u\ > n , and to move those for \u\ < n near
the locations (3.27) that would produce the nearly constant sidelobes near the main
beam.
To match these two sets of zeros, Taylor introduced a dilation factor <r that is
slightly greater than unity to stretch the ideal space factor horizontally by moving the
ideal zero locations zn, such that eventually one of the zeros becomes equal to the
corresponding integer n.
The synthesized pattern normalized to unity is

F(z,A,n)= 1-1 j/2

sin m TT 1 — 2 lzn (3.31)

for

z = uLIK The numbers zn are the zero locations of

the synthesized pattern and are given by

Zn = ±<7{Ai
for 1 < n < n (3.32)
= +n
for n < n < ~>

where

Note that at n = n, z,, = n.

Since the dilation factor a stretches or dilates the "ideal" space factor to move its
zeros away from the main beam, then the beamwidth is increased to a first
approximation by that same factor. A good approximation for the beamwidth is
therefore given by

6*3 - radians (3.33)

for /3(|A/L, the beamwidth of the idealized pattern (3.30). Table 3.2 [20] gives
values of the parameter /?o in degrees and the dilation factor frused in computation
of the approximate beamwidth (3.33).
The aperture distribution required to produce Taylor patterns is expanded as a
finite Fourier series of terms with zero derivatives at the aperture edges.
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