An Efficient Approach for the Synthesis of Large Sparse Planar Array

Abstract

An innovative noniterative approach based on the matrix enhancement and matrix pencil (MEMP) is proposed for the synthesis of arbitrary sparse planar arrays. In this study, the estimation of array parameters is recast as a 2-D pole extraction problem, and the number of array elements is minimized by the reduced rank processing. Subsequently, the Hankel matrix decomposition algorithm is exploited to accelerate the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the Hankel matrix constructed by the desired pattern samples, which conquers the restriction on the matrix dimension of the sampled Hankel matrix with the increasing of the number of array elements. The MEMP approach is further extended to the synthesis of shaped-beam patterns by using the forward–backward matrix enhancement and matrix pencil method (FBMEMP). A set of representative numerical experiments is provided to validate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method.