Design and Fabrication of a Multichannel Adaptive Optical Processor (MADOP)

Abstract

We designed and built a multichannel adaptive optical processor (MADOP) for the purpose of adaptive cancellation of broadband jamming noise in C-Band antenna arrays. The processor operates at an intermediate frequency (IF) of 80 MHz and is designed to provide greater than 30 dB cancellation of two independent 10 MHz bandwidth noise jammers, where multiple reflections of the jamming energy collected in the sidelobes produce multipath delays of up to 5 usec. The MADOP architecture is portable and designed to function as an on-line 'smart filter' which adaptively cancels broadband noise in the sidelobes. Optical signal processing, Adaptive processing, Acousto-optics, Noise cancellation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA270004

Entities

People

  • Christopher W. Keefer
  • Harold G. Andrews Ii
  • Michael J. Ward

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antenna Arrays
  • Bandwidth
  • C Band
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Synthesizers
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Modulation
  • Optical Correlators
  • Optical Modulators
  • Optics
  • Parallel Computing
  • Reflection
  • Signal Processing
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.