• DocumentCode
    546268
  • Title

    Photoconductive switches for radar systems exploiting time domain

  • Author

    Labate, M.G. ; Buonanno, A. ; D´Urso, M. ; Calzolaio, G. ; Vacca, A. ; Zeni, L. ; Leone, G. ; Riccardo, G.

  • Author_Institution
    SELEX Sist. Integrati S.p.A., Giugliano di Napoli, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    11-15 April 2011
  • Firstpage
    2244
  • Lastpage
    2245
  • Abstract
    In many modern radar application, as, for example, Time Modulated Array or High Power Devices [1-3, 5-6], the availability of switches with very low transition time, very low light resistance, very high dark resistance and supporting high powers are required. The objective of this work is to design a photoconductive switch able to generate short pulses with very high amplitude for designing new front-end radar architectures exploiting time domain. To this aim, a feeding network based on the Blumlein lines will be taken into account.
  • Keywords
    photoconducting switches; radar applications; time-domain analysis; Blumlein lines; amplitude; dark resistance; feeding network; high power devices; light resistance; photoconductive switches; radar application; radar systems; short pulses; supporting high powers; time domain; time modulated array; transition time; Arrays; Availability; Resistance; Semiconductor lasers; Silicon; Switches; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0250-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5782021