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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Howard S. Nussbaum, Los Angeles, CA (US);
William P. Posey, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
A technique is described for providing a pulsed radar exciter signal, in a radar exciter including a direct digital synthesizer (DDS). The DDS is reset pulse-to-pulse to provide a pulsed DDS signal having pulse-to-pulse phase discontinuities due to the resetting of the DDS. The phase of the pulsed DDS signal can be shifted pulse-to-pulse by a phase shift that is held constant over a pulse to correct the pulse-to-pulse phasing of the DDS signal. A discrete phase modulator can provide the phase shift. The phase of the pulsed DDS signal can be shifted pulse-to-pulse by an additional phase shift which is a linear phase sequence from pulse-to-pulse, or by an additional phase shift which is a quadratic phase sequence from pulse-to-pulse to produce a ranging waveform.