Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp.

Raytheon Company

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Northeastern University

Cobham Defense Electronics Systems—m/a-com

Robert Egri

Jonathan P Comeau

Marc Steven Weinberg

Matteo Rinaldi

Amy Elizabeth Duwel

Nicol E McGruer

Cristian Cassella

Christopher C Winter

A zero power radio frequency (RF) activated wake up device is provided. The device is based on a high-Q MEMS demodulator that filters an amplitude-modulated RF tone of interest from the entire spectrum while producing a much higher voltage signal suitable to trigger a high-Q MEMS resonant switch tuned to the modulation frequency of the RF tone.

Zero power radio frequency receiver

An interfering signal canceller for cancelling an interfering signal component of an input signal includes a voltage sensor element disposed in a primary path and fed by the input signal, a coupler disposed in the primary path and fed by the voltage sensor element, a Hartley image-reject element disposed in an auxiliary path and fed by the input signal for converting the input signal to an intermediate or baseband frequency signal, a phase slope compensator disposed in the auxiliary path after the Hartley image-reject element to allow broadband phase adjustment of the interfering signal component of a converted input signal, and an inverse Hartley image-reject element disposed in the auxiliary path after the phase phase slope compensator to convert the passed the interfering signal component to the predetermined band of frequencies and having an output fed to the coupler.

Interference signal cancellor with active tunable notch filter

Embodiments of a wideband interference mitigation (IM) system with negative group delay (NGD) compensation and method for wideband interference cancellation are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the wideband IM system may include first frequency-selective circuitry to capture interfering signals within a bandwidth of interest from a primary signal path after removal of a desired signal, cancellation circuitry to implement a negative group delay (NGD) on output signals from the first frequency-selective circuitry to generate negative group-delayed signals, and second frequency-selective circuitry to generate interference cancellation signals from the negative group-delayed signals for combining with signals from the primary signal path. The negative group delay provided by the cancellation circuitry may compensate for a group delay of the first frequency-selective circuitry, a group delay of the second frequency-selective circuitry and a group delay of primary signal path so that the interference cancellation signals have little or no group delay with respect to signals of the primary signal path within the bandwidth of interest.

Wideband interference mitigation system with negative group delay and method for wideband interference cancellation

An encoder can convert a stream of data into three or four synchronized 4-PSK signals, for 64-QAM and 256-QAM, respectively. Three or four mixers can combine the three or four synchronized PSK signals with a common local oscillator signal to form three or four respective amplifiable signals, which can all have the same amplitude. One amplifier receives a first of the amplifiable signals and powers one radiator. Two amplifiers both receive a second of amplifiable signals and power two respective radiators. Four amplifiers receive a third of the amplifiable signals and power four respective radiators. The amplifiers can all operate in near or full saturation. Each radiator radiates in one of a plurality of discrete, specified states. The radiated states from the radiators combine through far-field electromagnetic propagation and effectively sum at the receiver to mimic transmission from a single amplifier.

System and method for transmitting a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) waveform to a receiver

A system and method for providing coherent sources for phased arrays are provided. One method includes providing a plurality of transceivers configured to transmit signals and defining an array of nodes. The method also includes providing a plurality of beacons at different frequencies to one of aim or focus phase coherent energy generated by the transmitted signals from the plurality of transceivers, wherein the phase coherent energy is transmitted at a direction and a frequency determined with phase conjugation and independent of the location of the plurality of beacons.

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Robert Egri