Solid-State, Active-Phased Arrays - Some Aspects of Receiver Design

Abstract

The Navy's use of solid-state transmitter technology has been limited to communication equipment or other uses requiring relatively low power, low frequency, or both. It has now become necessary to address some of the issues and tradeoffs involved in the design of transmit/receive modules so that active phased-array characteristics can be fully understood. The analytical work performed here determines the general relationship among the system noise figure, and third-order intercept requirements of phased-array receivers and the effect on noise figure of adding receive-attenuation to implement weighting (taper) of the array elements. System noise figure, Signal and third-order intercept curves, Phased-array receivers, Linear taper, Cosine-squared-on-a- pedestal taper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA275893

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  • Joseph D. Harrop

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  • Naval Surface Warfare Center

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