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Electronic warfare systems must cover a wider band of the spectrum and address more trackable targets in order to rise to their challenges. Existing systems leverage analog beamforming components which only allow for tracking of single targets using narro

Ultrawideband radar with short duration pulses (10 ps-10 ns) is a candidate for new sensor systems. This approach may provide improved capabilities for target detection and identification through examination of target resonance characteristics. Detection and processing of short duration, ultrawideband pulses that have random time intervals between pulses require new approaches to receiver design. ...

THIS PROPOSAL EXAMINES NEW CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO WIDEBAND MICROWAVE SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPONENTS BASED ON GAAS MMIC TECHNOLOGY. A UNIQUE TRAVELING-WAVE TYPE WIDEBAND POWER AMPLIFIER IS DESCRIBED INCORPORATING A NOVEL POWER FET CONFIGURATION DEMONSTRATED AT HITTITE MICROWAVE. IN THIS PROPOSAL, WE ALSO DESCRIBED NEW IDEAS AND APPROACHES FOR WIDEBAND SIGNAL CONTROL COMPONENTS SUCH AS SWITCHES, P ...

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A REQUIREMENT EXISTS FOR PROTECTING ICBM WEAPON SYSTEM VEHICLES FROM EMERGING RADAR DIRECTED THREATS DURING THE POST BOOST GLIDE, RE-ENTRY VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT, AND FINAL BALLISTIC FLIGHT STAGES. THE ELECTRONICS REQUIRED FOR PERFORMING SUCH A TASK FACE MANY CONFLICTING REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING WIDEBAND OPERATION, SEVERE OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS, MINIMUM SIZE, WEIGHT, AND POWER CONSUMPTION, AND HIGHLY RE ...

QRC, with subcontractor Texas Instruments, submits this proposal in response to SBIR A96-060 for Wideband Fast Switched RF Synthesizer. The current state of practice of advanced communication and radar systems is to use short on time emitters at any frequency in the in the RF spectrum for various systems. Therefore in support of ESM, ELINT, SIGINT and EA systems, it is necessary to have a method ...

The current market for fast switching frequency sythesizers is growing rapidly. Most synthesizers available today will not meet the stringent requirements for switching quickly, providing spectrally pure RF outputs and minimizing physical size and cost. As part of a current SBIR program, S.T. Research has developed a wideband, fast switching synthesizer, based on the use of broadband phase-locke ...

The current market for fast switching frequency sythesizers is growing rapidly. Most synthesizers available today will not meet the stringent requirements for switching quickly, providing spectrally pure RF outputs and minimizing physical size and cost. As part of a current SBIR program, S.T. Research has developed a wideband, fast switching synthesizer, based on the use of broadband phase-locke ...

Fast tuning microwave synthesizer systems are required by the Army for the demodulation of waveforms encoded by spread spectrum techniques. These systems are required as a method of jamming, countermeasures to jamming, secure communications and as low phase noise sources for rapid tuned radar. Our novel approach to these requirements involves the optical heterodyne between two diode laser-pumpe ...

We propose a novel, high performance tunable narrowband bandpass preselect filter that is capable of continuously tuning from 400MHz - 3GHz. The proposed filter offers an order of magnitude reduction in SWAP-C, small size (1/2" x 1/2" x 1/4"), low cost and minimal power consumption. The proposed design uses conventional fabrication processes and inexpensive off-the-shelf commercially available com ...