A Study on the Performance of a Complementary Auxiliary Antenna Pattern for Maisel Sidelobe Blanker

DINLER D., CANDAN Ç., KOC S.

IEEE Radar Conference, Oklahoma, United States Of America, 23 - 27 April 2018, pp.1178-1182, (Full Text) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/radar.2018.8378729
  • City: Oklahoma
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Page Numbers: pp.1178-1182
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The problem of coupling between probability of target blanking (P-TB) and probability of blanking (P-B) in Maisel sidelobe blanker (SLB) is addressed and a complementary auxiliary antenna pattern is proposed for phased array radar systems. The numerical results indicate that the complementary pattern provides an improvement on P-TB and P-B especially for the cases where antennas have poor mainlobe-to-sidelobe ratio.