Design and performance of an Airborne Ice Sounding Radar Front-End
Konferenz: GeMIC 2008 - German Microwave Conference
10.03.2008 - 12.03.2008 in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Tagungsband: GeMIC 2008
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Hernández, Carlos Cilla; Krozer, Viktor; Vidkjaer, Jens; Dall, Jørgen (Technical University Denmark, Ørsteds Plads 348, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
Inhalt:
This paper describes the design and performance of the RF Front-End of an airborne P-band ice sounding radar. The ice sounder design features newly developed compact high power RF components: high power in-phase and out-of-phase power dividers, a high power SPDT PIN switch and a high efficiency high-power LDMOS power amplifier with >60% power-added efficiency across a relative bandwidth of 20% at a centre frequency of 435 MHz. The system comprises also a microstrip patch antenna array, a digital signal generator, a digital front-end and a control unit. The system is in the assembly and testing phase. In May 2008 the first data acquisition campaign will take place in Greenland.