Designer Polarization L3 Technologies（设计师极化L3技术）.pdf

DESIGNER POLARIZATION (for magazine publication) INTRODUCTION Historically, Radar Warning Receivers (RWR) employ cavity backed spiral antennas to detect and classify threats to the aircraft and to determine their direction of arrival. These spiral antennas are circularly polarized and can sense signals of all polarizations with varying sensitivity except the opposite sensed circular polarization. In 1983, Randtron Antenna Systems developed a common aperture antenna with performance equal to or better than a spiral antenna of the same size and capable of simultaneously receiving both senses of circular polarization. This antenna is the Dual Polarized Sinuous Antenna (DPSA). The DPSA has two output ports that provide maximum response to left- and right-hand circularly polarized incoming signals and also respond well to any linear polarization. As a result, one port or the other will always receive any polarized signal with sensitivity that is no less that 3 dB below the matched polarization sensitivity. Figure 1 depicts the block diagram of the sinuous antenna, which includes the Horizontal and Vertical Polarization elements, the Baluns and the 90° Hybrid Coupler. In order to upgrade an existing RWR system for monopulse all polarization capability using the two-port DPSA, an additional cable and receiver channel is required. Figure 1 shows how this is accomplished. The added hardware is shown in red. Figure 1 - Implementation of Two-Port Sinuous Antenna in RWR system To reduce the cost, the second Receiver/Processor in Figure 1 can be eliminated if a RF Switch is added to time-share the two outputs of the DPSA. However this also requires modifying the Receiver/Processor to add the hardware and software to control the RF Switch. For further system cost reduction, the DPSA was revised to provide an optional