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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2017
Applicant:
Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Inventor:
Patrick D. McKivergan, Londonderry, NH (US);
Assignee:
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/16 (2006.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/16 (2013.01); H04B 7/043 (2013.01); H01Q 21/0031 (2013.01);
Abstract
The system and method for using a wideband dielectric lens array to instantaneously and unambiguously determining azimuthal angle of arrival (AoA) of RF energy over a frequency bandwidth of greater than four octaves. By forming two omnidirectional modes with a constant and linear phase response versus azimuth respectively, the AoA of the incident RF signal can be determined unambiguously using a one or two channel receiver architecture that is capable of measuring the phase between the two modal outputs.