• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.39-52
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• 2000

A design of 2 stage S-DLVA(successive detector log video amplifier) was studied to detect wide dynamic radar pulse ranging from -70 ㏈m to 0㏈m. A basic design idea was focused on the linear detection in logarithmic scale of wide dynamic range radar pulses from nosie-like weak power of -70 ㏈m to relatively high power 0 ㏈m. It is highly formidable, since it requires high speed detection less than 10 nsec over the operating frequency ranges from 6 to 18 ㎓. A limiter diode, a tunnel diode and an L17-C were used as a protecting device, a detector diode and a log video amplifier in companion as a single stage detector to give voltage output proportional to the input power of about 35 ㏈ dynamic range. A protype of 2-stage DLVA having one more single stage detector was fabricated with a 32 ㏈ low noise amplifier and a 3 ㏈ hybrid coupler to provide total 70 ㏈ dynamic range detection. The logging characteristics were measured to have log slope of 25m.V/㏈ against 70 ㏈ logging range from -55 ㏈m to +15 ㏈m, the log linearity of within +/- 1.5 ㏈, and tangential sensitivity was at -63 ㏈m. The pulse dynamics of rise time and recovery time were measured as 50 nsec and 1.2 $\mu$sec, respectively. The reason might be due to the parasitic capacitances of packaged limiter, tunnel diode, and L17-C.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.641-647
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• 2011

This paper describes a design and fabrication of SDLVA. The SDLVA operates 0.5~2.0 GHz with -70~0 dBm dynamic range. The SDLVA is consisted of 5-stage RF block, 2-stage detector block and summation circuit using clamping op-amp to improve video linearity. The result of measure, SDLVA of RF path has over 73 dB small-signal gain and 10.1~12.2 dBm saturation power. The video path has 25 mV/ dB${\pm}$1.0 mV and under ${\pm}$1.5 dB video linearity.