Synthesis of linear and planar arrays with sidelobes of individually arbitrary levels

A procedure is presented to synthesize linear and planar antenna arrays to have individually arbitrary sidelobe levels. This procedure is based on perturbation of the zeros of radiation pattern and is applicable for both sum‐ and difference‐type radiation patterns. Planar antenna arrays are synthesized by transforming synthesized linear arrays to planar arrays. The synthesized planar arrays would have ring type sidelobes. Some examples are brought to verify the effectiveness of the proposed procedure for both linear and planar arrays with sum or difference radiation patterns.