Beam design for a ping-pong-sampled linear receive array

Aliasing of far-field plane-wave information is avoided using only half the conventional Nyquist sample rate when sample timing is staggered on adjacent elements of a linear antenna array. The receive version of the array is examined here. The required upsampling beamformer structure is presented, and examples illustrate the pattern-design process.

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