A DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR TAPPED-DELAY-LINE COMPRESSION FILTERS
- 1 September 1965
- report
- Published by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Abstract
A compression-filter design is described which utilizes 76 broadband taps spaced nonuniformly along a delay line. Also described is a computer program, written in FORTRAN II language, which can be used to calculate the individual tap positions and weightings for a maximum-response peak-to-sidelobe ratio. Computations made using the computer program resulted in a compression filter matched to an excitation which changed frequency linearly with time over an octave bandwidth and which had a time-bandwidth product of 50. The response of this filter was a compressed pulse with a peak-to-sidelobe ratio of over 100. In addition, the filter proved to be less sensitive to scan-rate errors than a continuously dispersive filter with the same compression characteristics. Experimental results were obtained on a 76-tap compression filter designed to operate in the 1- to 2-Gc frequency range. The performance of this filter tends to confirm the validity of the technique and provides an encouraging basis for future work.Keywords
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