Designing feeding networks with CORPS: coherently radiating periodic structures

The design of feeding networks in phased array systems results tricky since all the complex excitations should be provided to all the radiating elements of the system. Where the number of radiating elements increases the complexity of the feeding network also increase significantly. In this paper we study the possibility to apply the concepts of CORPS structures to the feeding network, obtaining a general feeding network design where the excitations should be introduced before the network and not after, reducing strongly the number of phase shifters and attenuators needed to electronically scan the beam.