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What are quantisation lobes?

  • A.Extra lobes appearing whenever the array is scanned beyond sixty degrees
  • B.Spurious lobes caused by stepped rather than continuous phase control
  • C.Lobes produced when the transmitted signal is digitally sampled
  • D.The side lobes remaining after an amplitude taper has been applied

Answer: B

Real phase shifters have a finite number of bits, so the applied phase is a staircase approximation to the ideal ramp and the periodic error radiates into spurious lobes. Randomising the assignment of shifter settings across the aperture breaks up the periodicity and spreads the energy into the side lobe floor instead. Signal sampling, ordinary side lobes and scan loss are separate matters. It is a good example of a digital implementation detail with a directly visible effect on the pattern.

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