Title :
Full-wave detection against half-wave detection in radiometry
Author_Institution :
Joint Inst. for VLBI in Europe, Dwingeloo, South Korea
fDate :
1/8/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Half-wave detection which is used in practice in radiometers does not allow the achievement of potential sensitivity. A comparison of the output signal-to-noise ratios for both full-wave and half-wave detectors shows that considerable gain could be obtained with the full-wave detector
Keywords :
radiometry; sensitivity; signal detection; full-wave detection; half-wave detection; output signal-to-noise ratios; potential sensitivity; radiometry;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980110
