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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2018
Applicant:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert H. Nelson, Glendale, CA (US);
Thomas Justin Shaw, Reston, VA (US);
Assignee:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/04 (2006.01); G01S 3/48 (2006.01); G01S 3/50 (2006.01); G01S 3/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/48 (2013.01); G01S 3/50 (2013.01); G01S 3/46 (2013.01); G01S 3/465 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus that includes a phased array configured to monitor a broad bandwidth with low rate ADC achieving sub-Nyquist rate sampling with 100 percent duty cycle. The phased array includes a plurality of phased array elements. Each of the phased array elements are inserted with a non-uniform true time delay to enable simultaneous measurement of an AOA and a frequency of an incident RF signal.