A high-resolution chirp transform spectrometer for microwave measurements
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Measurement Science and Technology
- Vol. 1 (7) , 592-595
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/1/7/008
Abstract
A microwave heterodyne spectrometer consists of a radiometer front-end and a real-time spectrum analyser back-end. Common spectrometer types are filterbanks, autocorrelators and acousto-optic spectrometers (AOS). A high-resolution chirp transform spectrometer using reflective array compressor (RAC) filters with a time bandwidth product of 6400 is presented. The spectrometer has 1600 channels within a 40 MHz input bandwidth and a linear dynamic range of 63 dB for a CW input. It seems to be very promising for future space applications.Keywords
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