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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1999
Filed:
May. 23, 1997
Eric N Boe, Long Beach, CA (US);
Gib Lewis, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
A quadrant-partitioned array architecture and measurement sequence supporting mutual-coupling based calibration. The architecture includes an array of radiating elements grouped into quadrants, with a quadrant feed network and an intra-quadrant feed network connected between a transmitter/receiver and the radiating elements. The architecture includes test signal switches which provide access for quadrant testing functions, allowing a test signal to be injected into one quadrant while making measurements of the received signal in an adjacent quadrant. Mutual coupling based module-to-module RF measurements are performed to phase up the array.