• DocumentCode
    1142057
  • Title

    Active-Scatterer Radar System

  • Author

    Planck, P.V.

  • Author_Institution
    Applied Research Lab. Sylvania Electronic Syst. Waltham, Mass. 02154
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1969
  • Firstpage
    1008
  • Lastpage
    1009
  • Abstract
    An amplitude-modulated active scatterer was used as a transponder in an elementary CW radar system. Some experiments at X-band are reported where the scatterer was an equiangular spiral antenna loaded by a biasmodulated tunnel diode.
  • Keywords
    Delay; Electromagnetic scattering; Phase locked loops; RF signals; Radar antennas; Radar scattering; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Transmitters; Transponders;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1969.309988
  • Filename
    4103444