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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2018.29.11.857

Design and Fabrication of an L-Band Digital TR Module for Radar  

Lim, Jae-Hwan (Radar R&D Lab., LIGNex1)
Park, Se-Jun (Radar R&D Lab., LIGNex1)
Jun, Sang-Mi (Radar R&D Lab., LIGNex1)
Jin, Hyung-Suk (Radar R&D Lab., LIGNex1)
Kim, Kwan-Sung (Agency for Defense Development)
Kim, Tae-Hun (UTEL)
Kim, Jae-Min (MIRAE SYSTEM)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.29, no.11, 2018 , pp. 857-867 More about this Journal
Abstract
Active array radar is evolving into digital active array radar. Digital active array radar has many advantages for making several simultaneous radar beams from the digital receive data of each element. A digital-type transceiver(TR) module is suitable for this goal in radar. In this work, the design results of an L-band digital TR module are presented to verify the possibility of fabrication for a digital active array antenna. This L-band digital TR module consists of a gallium-nitride-type HPA to achieve a more than 350-W peak output power and one-chip transceivers that include a digital waveform generator and analog digital converter. The receiving gain was 47 dB, the noise figure was less than 2 dB, and the final output type of the four channel receiving paths was one optic signal.
Keywords
Digital; TR-Module; Active Array Antenna; GaN; Radar;
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