Compressive Sensing Multiplicative Antenna Array

This paper presents a novel approach to formulate an aggressively thinned sparse antenna array suitable for orthogonal multi-beam receiver applications. The power patterns of M×N element planar rectangular array are first reduced to orthogonally placed cross multiplicative sub-arrays. These arrays are then re-distributed using a compressive sensing (CS) approach in order to achieve array thinning along two 1-D sub-arrays for a fixed steered beam projection. A multi-beam synthesis approach is then implemented which permits efficient beam maxima as well as null placement of multiple interlaced far-field patterns. Numerical examples are presented to show the implementation of the proposed approach.