A VARIABLE-REFERENCE-LEVEL CORRELATOR,

Abstract

The design and preliminary performance characteristics of a variable-reference-level correlator (VRLC) are described. This unique instrument utilizes the basic circuitry of a digital polarity-coincidence correlator but, by comparatively simple modifications, permits an output to be obtained that is related not only to the phase coincidence of the inputs but to their amplitudes as well. The VRLC has been successfully employed in an experimental program to study the correlation properties of the underwater diffraction pattern of a corrugated air/water interface. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 15, 1969
Accession Number
AD0695408

Entities

People

  • J. A. Macaluso

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Correlators
  • Diffraction
  • Polarity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science
  • Radar Systems Engineering.