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Table 8.1 summarizes the impact of most common windows on the array pat-
tern in terms of main beam widening and peak reduction. Note that the rectan-
gular window is used as the baseline. This is also illustrated in Fig. 8.7.

TABLE 8.1. Common windows.

Window Null-to-null Beamwidth Peak Reduction

Rectangular 1 1

Hamming 2 0.73

Hanning 2 0.664

Blackman 6 0.577

2.76 0.683

β = 6 ) Kaiser (

1.75 0.882

β = 3 )

Kaiser (

Figure 8.7. Most common windows. This figure can be reproduced using
MATLAB program Ðfig8_7.mÑ given in Listing 8.2 in Section 8.8.