A study on the performance of a complementary auxiliary antenna pattern for maisel sidelobe blanker

Abstract

The problem of coupling between probability of target blanking (PTB ) and probability of blanking (PB ) 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 PTB and PB especially for the cases where antennas have poor mainlobe-to-sidelobe ratio.