Performance and Simulation Verification of a Mobile Solid State Pulsed Ring Down Array

Author

Reale, David V. ; Mankowksi, John ; Holt, Shad ; Walter, John ; Dickens, James ; Gonsalves, Nathan R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

Volume

40

Issue

10

fYear

2012

Firstpage

2548

Lastpage

2553

Abstract

Mobile pulsed ring down arrays are of great interest due to their ability to deliver high peak power electromagnetic pulses. Global positioning system (GPS) devices are used as a means to provide position information to individual array elements. An array of solid state radiating structures was built and tested. The array test results are compared to a Monte Carlo array simulation that take into account source jitter, timing error, and distance error between array elements due to GPS measurements.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Monte Carlo methods; jitter; pulsed power supplies; GPS devices; GPS measurements; Monte Carlo array simulation; array elements; distance error; global positioning system; high peak power electromagnetic pulses; mobile solid state pulsed ring down array; position information; solid state radiating structures; source jitter; timing error; Arrays; Delay; Global Positioning System; Jitter; Monte Carlo methods; Solids; Testing; Global positioning system; Monte Carlo methods; phased arrays; power MOSFET; pulse power systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2012.2190623

Filename

6179550