Design, development and implementation of a solid-state pulse modulator for high-power pulse transmitters / Projeto, desenvolvimento e construção de um modulador de pulso estado-solido para transmissores pulsados de alta potencia

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This work describes the development of a modular line-type solid-state pulse modulator topology to be applied in magnetron pulsed power radar transmitters, commonly found on tracking, weather and air traffic management radars. This research includes the design, development and assembling of a pulsed modulator for the Barreira do Inferno Launching Center (CLBI, Natal-RN) Bearn tracking radar upgrade program. The equipment developed provides pulses of 37.5 KV and 60 A in three transmission modes: single long pulse, single short pulse and bipulse. In the single long pulse the pulse width is 1.7 µs and in the other modes 0.85 µs. The pulse repetition frequency is of 585.5Hz. The modulator unit is composed by eight switching modules connected in parallel with the primary windings of a 1:50 ratio pulse transformer. Each module has two pulse-forming network and two IGBT switches and it is capable of handling 790 V and 390 A in the three operational modes. An inductor and a Clipper circuit implement the pulse-forming network charging. The charging inductor allows charging the pulse-forming network with twice the supply voltage since there is a resonance with the total modulator capacitance. The Clipper circuit assures the pulse-to-pulse charging voltage regulation and protects the modulator against load over-current and over-voltage charging. This topology was developed to improve reliability and maintainability of radar transmitters by implementing the graceful degradation (soft failure mode) in the pulse modulator

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radar transmissores de radar power electronics radar transmitters eletronica de potencia pulser pulse modulation (eletronics) modulação de pulso (eletronica) pulse generator

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