Correlation Loss with Optimized Receiver Delay for Band-Limited Communication

The degradation in correlation receiver performance due to signal distortion at the transmitting antenna is computed as a function of processing delay for simple but representative models of the Sanguine antenna and input waveforms. The optimum delay and minimum distortion loss are given parametrically in terms of the ratio of the 3 dB bandwidth of the signal process to that of the antenna. For the more realistic model considered the degradation can be reduced significantly to just a fraction of a dB by optimizing the receiver delay.