Design of Solid-State Transmitter and Receiver for Active Array Radar System

This paper presents design and measurement result of S-band, kW solid-state transmitter and receiver for active array radar system. Transmitter characteristics show 63 dB gain, 200 usec pulse width(max.), 10 % duty(max.) and 63 dB pulse to pulse stability. Receiver characteristics show 23 dB gain and 3.2 dB noise figure. Receiving mode for pulse network analyzer is used for pulse to pulse stability measurement. Measurement results satisfies all specification.