Nonlinear measurement dedicated to non periodic pulse train for radar power amplifier characterization

Author

Bridier, Vincent ; Ducatteau, Damien ; Olivier, Michel ; Simon, Hans-Joachim ; Graux, Francois ; Eudeline, Philippe ; Dambrine, Gilles

Author_Institution

Rohde&Schwarz France, Meudon, France

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A six port mixer based 20GHz nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA) dedicated to the characterization of radar power amplifier driven by non periodic pulsed signal is proposed. For the first time a mixer based NVNA is able to measure the fundamental and two harmonics simultaneously while using non periodic radar pulse train allowing measuring time domain waveforms and pulse to pulse measurement within actual radar conditions. The measurement is applied on an S-band 5W GaN on silicon HEMT.

Keywords

gallium compounds; high electron mobility transistors; microwave mixers; microwave power amplifiers; network analysers; pulse amplifiers; time-domain analysis; GaN; S-band 5W GaN on silicon HEMT; frequency 20 GHz; harmonics; mixer based NVNA; nonperiodic pulsed signal; nonperiodic radar pulse train; power 5 W; pulse to pulse measurement; radar power amplifier; six port mixer based 20GHz nonlinear vector network analyzer; time domain waveforms; Approximation methods; Gallium nitride; HEMTs; Pulse measurements; Radar measurements; Receivers; GaN HEMT; Non periodic pulse train; Nonlinear vector network analyzer; Radar; power amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848400

Filename

6848400