Window Function Design for Asymmetric Beampattern Synthesis and Applications

Abstract

This letter proposes a novel window function design to synthesize asymmetric beampatterns while minimizing the gain loss for clutter/interference suppression as required in practical applications, such as airborne phased array radar (APAR). Compared with beampattern synthesis in terms of designing the weight vector directly, the proposed method can achieve asymmetric sidelobes for multiple steering directions resort to designing one window while circumventing repetitive computations. To tackle the resultant non-convex optimization problem, an iterative alternating optimization (IAO) algorithm is introduced where each iteration involves multiple subproblems that can be solved via either convex approximation (CA) approach or closed-form solutions. Finally, numerical simulations are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method comparing with the classical adjustable window functions (CAWFs).