A 600 GHz imaging radar for concealed objects detection

Author

Bryllert, Tomas ; Cooper, Ken B. ; Dengler, Robert J. ; Llombart, Nuria ; Chattopadhyay, Goutam ; Schlecht, Erich ; Gill, John ; Lee, Choonsup ; Skalare, Anders ; Mehdi, Imran ; SIEGEL, Peter H.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We present the hardware and the experimental results from a 600 GHz imaging radar with sub-centimeter resolution in all three spatial dimensions. The FMCW radar transceiver is built on a back-end of commercial microwave components - with a front-end of custom designed frequency multipliers and mixers. The optics consists of a 40 cm diameter ellipsoidal primary reflector with a 4 m focal length. The acquired images will be compared with those achieved with a more traditional sub-millimeter wave active imaging technique.

Keywords

CW radar; FM radar; radar detection; radar imaging; submillimetre wave devices; transceivers; FMCW radar transceiver; concealed objects detection; ellipsoidal primary reflector; frequency 600 GHz; front-end; radar imaging; size 4 m; size 40 cm; subcentimeter resolution; Airborne radar; Frequency; Laboratories; Microwave imaging; Millimeter wave radar; Object detection; Optical imaging; Propulsion; Radar imaging; Submillimeter wave technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2870-0

Electronic_ISBN

1097-5659

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2009.4977038

Filename

4977038