Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for compensation of diffraction of beam of an antenna system. In the preferred embodiment, the antenna system is a phased array antenna. The present invention does so by controlling the phase front. The phase front is controlled by distributing frequencies such that the value of the frequency for a given emitter is proportional to the distance of the emitter from the center of the antenna system. In one embodiment of the invention, the value of the frequency for a given emitter is linear, square or otherwise, to the distance of the emitter from the center of the antenna system. A phase front formed by the time spectrum is summed with a phase front created by diffraction divergence compensation. In one embodiment, the phase front is controlled by forming the radius of the time spectrum opposite to and with the same value as the radius of the phase front created by diffraction divergence compensation.