• DocumentCode
    1497903
  • Title

    Quasi-circulator for effective cancellation of transmitter leakage signals in monostatic six-port radar

  • Author

    Yang, Jong-Ryul ; Kim, Dong-Won ; Hong, Seong-Kwan

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. (EECS), Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    1093
  • Lastpage
    1095
  • Abstract
    A quasi-circulator, composed of two branch-line couplers and an asymmetric power combiner, is proposed to effectively cancel the transmitter leakage signals in a monostatic six-port radar. The effective isolation is improved by 12.2 dB at 24 GHz. With the proposed quasi-circulator, the maximum detectable range of the six-port radar is improved by 167 , compared with that of the six-port radar with a conventional branch-line coupler.
  • Keywords
    power combiners; radar signal processing; asymmetric power combiner; branch-line couplers; effective cancellation; monostatic six-port radar; quasi-circulator; transmitter leakage signals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2009.9062
  • Filename
    5284469