A Hybrid Approach for the Optimal Synthesis of Shaped-Beams Through Generic Arrays

We propose an innovative approach to the mask-constrained power synthesis of shaped beams through fixed-geometry array antennas having whatever kind of structure/layout and being composed by whatever radiating elements. The approach takes advantage from the convexity of the problem with respect to excitations and exploits a global optimization procedure on the field's phase shifts over a (small) number of control points.