Circular aperture pattern synthesis from collapsed equivalent line-source distributions

A novel circular aperture pattern synthesis technique is presented, which enables a linear line-source distribution to be converted to a rotationally symmetric circular aperture distribution, of which any /spl phi/-cut radiation pattern is ideally the same as the principal plane pattern of the line-source distribution. Line-source pattern synthesis techniques are numerous and versatile and the technique presented here allows these techniques to be applied to circular apertures as well. This new synthesis method is most compatible with line-source distributions which have zero edge illumination.