1.5 kW, S-band solid-state pulsed power amplifier with digitally controlled automatic gain equalizer circuit

Author

Ho Kim, Ki ; Ri Lee, Yu ; Han Joo, Ji ; Hyung Jong Kim ; Joo Choi, Jin ; Min Park, Dong

Author_Institution

Kwangwoon Univ. 447-1, Seoul

fYear

2006

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

714

Lastpage

717

Abstract

This paper describes fabrication and experiment of a 1.5 kW solid-state pulsed power amplifier with automatic gain equalization circuit for radar application. The solid-state pulsed power amplifier consists of parallel RF power modules to obtain a high RF power of more than 1.5 kW. Each power module has a series 8-cascaded power amplifier. Overall dimension of the amplifier is 39x29x15.6cm³ . Experimental results show peak output power of 1.8 kW, corresponding to PAE of 25% over a frequency range of 2.7 - 3.1 GHz with a pulse width of 100 musec and a PRF of 1 kHz.

Keywords

UHF amplifiers; equalisers; microwave amplifiers; pulsed power supplies; radar; S-band solid-state pulsed power amplifier; digitally controlled automatic gain equalizer circuit; frequency 2.7 GHz to 3.1 GHz; power 1.5 kW; power 1.8 kW; power module; radar application; Automatic control; Digital control; Equalizers; Multichip modules; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse circuits; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Solid state circuits; Automatic Gain equalization (AGE) circuit; Silicon Bipolar-Junction Transistor (BJT); Solid-State Pulsed Power Amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. APMC 2006. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-4-902339-08-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-902339-11-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2006.4429519

Filename

4429519