THz RCS measurement system

Author

Liu Wei ; Wang Yahai ; Yan Zhen

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol. on Electron. Test & Meas. Lab., Qingdao, China

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

16-19 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

741

Lastpage

744

Abstract

This paper presents the scheme, the function and the technical specifications of 170-325GHz waveband RCS measurement system. And the steps to improve the performance of system, including multilevel amplification and frequency multiplication, low-order harmonic mixing are taken using external signal generator and intermediary frequency (IF) receiver. Considerable dynamic range and other characteristics are obtained with these approaches. At the end of this paper, the concrete implementation and experiment of 1mm RCS measurement system is described, and the feasibility of the project studied in this paper is verified.

Keywords

frequency multipliers; millimetre wave amplifiers; millimetre wave measurement; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave radar; millimetre wave receivers; radar cross-sections; radar receivers; signal generators; submillimetre wave amplifiers; submillimetre wave measurement; submillimetre wave mixers; submillimetre wave radar; submillimetre wave receivers; IF receiver; THz RCS measurement system; external signal generator; frequency 170 GHz to 325 GHz; frequency multiplication; intermediary frequency receiver; low-order harmonic mixing; multilevel amplification; size 1 mm; waveband RCS measurement system; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency measurement; Harmonic analysis; Microwave measurement; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology; Mixers; RCS measurement; THz; frequency multiplication; harmonic mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI), 2013 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0757-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2013.6743202

Filename

6743202