• DocumentCode
    153231
  • Title

    Evanescent holes for power monitoring of a Pulsed Cloud Radar

  • Author

    Wylde, Richard J. ; Pike, Kevin J. ; Woodcraft, Adam ; Howes, John ; Schoedel, Richard Thompson Hans-Joachim ; Geise, Alexander ; Nakatsuka, Hirotaka ; Horie, Hikaru ; Takahashi, Naoyuki

  • Author_Institution
    Thomas Keating Ltd., Billingshurst, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-19 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Evanescent holes in a curved mirror will be used to provide an ultra-stable high-loss path to monitor the power in a 94 GHz transmitted beam for the Pulsed Cloud Radar on the EarthCARE satellite. Here we present details of the calculations to determine the hole size necessary and preliminary measurements on functional and proto-flight models.
  • Keywords
    klystrons; millimetre wave radar; mirrors; spaceborne radar; EarthCARE satellite; curved mirror; evanescent holes; frequency 94 GHz; functional model; hole size necessary measurements; hole size preliminary measurements; power monitoring; proto-flight model; pulsed cloud radar; ultra-stable high-loss path; Attenuation; Attenuation measurement; Loss measurement; Mirrors; Monitoring; Power measurement; Radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tucson, AZ
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956332
  • Filename
    6956332