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http://dx.doi.org/10.13067/JKIECS.2012.7.1.001

An implementation of 60W X-band Cascade SSPA for Marine Radar System  

Kim, Min-Soo (경남대학교 정보통신공학과)
Jang, Yeon-Gil (에이트론(주) 부설연구소)
Rhee, Young-Chul (경남대학교 정보통신공학과)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.7, no.1, 2012 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, An X-band solid state power amplifier(SSPA) for pulse compressed microwave signal with 60Watt power and power added efficiency(PAE) above 30% is described. Designed 60Watt high power amplifier(HPA) was implemented by cascade coupled amplifiers, and it is consisted on three stage drive amplifiers with internally matched GaAs FET and one stage main power amplifier with an internally matched GaN HEMT. The designed SSPA has performance with more than total power gain 37dB and output power 48dBm(60-W) in condition of frequency range $9.41{\pm}0.03GHz$, pulse period width under 1ms and duty cycle under 10%. The implemented SSPA can apply to high quality digital marine radar applications with pulse compression technique.
Keywords
SSPA(solid state power amplifier); GaN; Pulse compression;
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