Effects Of Local Oscillator Errors On Digital Beamforming

Abstract

Digital phased array antennas are sensitive to phase error among elements because it affects the coherence necessary to create the array factor. There are many sources for phase errors: local oscillators and clocks, quadrature modulators and demodulators, non-linear components, and so forth. Additionally, phased arrays are sensitive to element mislocation, which introduces another source of phase error. In this research, three types of phase errors were studied: phase noise, gain unbalance in quadrature modulators and demodulators, and element mislocation. Modifications to the traditional array pattern expression were proposed to account for these errors, and equations were programmed in MATLAB to perform parametric simulations to generate information regarding gain loss, beam pointing error, pattern distortions, and degradation in sidelobe levels. The objective is to aid array designers in setting acceptable tolerance limits for these types of errors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1027608

Entities

People

  • Marcos C. Siu

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Communication Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Demodulation
  • Detectors
  • Information Science
  • Local Oscillators
  • Modulators
  • Oscillators
  • Phased Arrays
  • Piezoelectric Crystals
  • Radar
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Radio Frequency
  • Sensor Networks
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.