L-band high power transmit/receive module for electronically scanned cylindrical array radar

Author

Issogna, P. ; Savit, G. ; Chau, D. ; Gallo, M. ; Kumar, M. ; Valentino, P.

Author_Institution

Paramax Syst. Corp., Great Neck, NY, USA

fYear

1993

Firstpage

497

Abstract

The development of an L-band solid-state transmit/receive (T/R) module operating over 1.2-1.4 GHz for an electronically scanned array radar is presented. Silicon bipolar transistors are used in the high-power amplifier in the transmit channel and GaAs FETs are used in the low-noise amplifier (LNA) in the receive channel. Key performance parameters of the T/R module are an average output power of >280 W peak (100 mu s pulse width, 10% duty cycle), reflecting a gain of 23.5 dB, a noise figure (NF) of <2.8 dB (LNA NF<1.2 dB), a receive gain of >32.5 dB, and a moving target indication (MTI) improvement factor of 70 dBc (pulse-to-pulse stability).<>

Keywords

radar systems; solid-state microwave circuits; transceivers; 1.2 to 1.4 GHz; 23.5 dB; L-band; average output power; bipolar transistors; electronically scanned cylindrical array radar; improvement factor; moving target indication; noise figure; receive gain; transmit channel; transmit/receive module; Bipolar transistors; L-band; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise measurement; Performance gain; Pulse amplifiers; Radar; Silicon; Solid state circuits; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1993., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1209-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1993.276773

Filename

276773