Irregular Polyomino-Shaped Subarrays for Space-Based Active Arrays

Figure 4

Sidelobe structure for 18×24 element array of 54 subarrays of rectangular or L-octomino subarrays.

(a) Array of rectangular subarrays

(b) Array of omnidirectional elements at rectangular subarray phase centers

(c) Array of octomino subarrays. Subarray phase centers are indicated by red dots

(d) Array of omnidirectional elements at octomino subarray phase centers