EP1096603A1 - Dispositif de commande pour la formation de plusieurs faisceaux simultanes de réception radar à antenne à balayage électronique - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a control device for the formation of several simultaneous antenna radar reception beams at electronic scanning. It applies in particular for the control of radiation pattern of a scanning electron antenna in sight to reconfigure the reception beams with great flexibility, and regardless of the radar bandwidth.
- An electronic scanning antenna has a plurality of radiating elements which both transmit and receive a microwave signal.
- a transmission or reception beam is formed by all of the signals transmitted or received by each element.
- To orient a beam in a given direction ⁇ it is necessary to create time delays between signals transmitted or received by the different radiating elements.
- To obtain an analogous effect it was known to create a phase delay between these signals.
- the phase shift ⁇ 1 - ⁇ 2 is equal to 2 ⁇ f (T 1 -T 2 ).
- the radar dynamic is characterized by the signal-to-noise ratio, including in the term "noise” intermodulation phenomena which emanate from the non-linearities of the chain generally called in Anglo-Saxon literature SFDR according to the expression "Spurious Free Dynamic Range”.
- the beam switching speed in a given direction from an order is another difficulty, second order compared to the dynamics.
- the multi-beam reception is then possible in the techniques of control based on microwave circuits only.
- the echo radar is detected on a network antenna by a matrix n lines per m columns of microwave detectors which constitute the antenna panel.
- These elementary signals are individually weighted in amplitude and in phase then summed to form a reception beam. This last one is characterized by its angular direction relative to the normal of the antenna and by its radiation pattern.
- In order to simultaneously train several receiving beams it is necessary to split the elementary signals to direct them to different weighting matrices and different adders. Realized in microwave technology, these weights and his summons are immutable.
- An object of the invention is in particular to allow a mode of simple realization of a multibeam reception with a large dynamic.
- the main advantages of the invention are that it allows reduce the complexity of digital processing relating to the training of radar beams, by FFC it brings immunity against electromagnetic disturbances, that it allows weight gain and gain and that it applies to all frequency bands radar.
- the appended figure therefore presents a possible embodiment of a control device according to the invention.
- This device controls the formation of several reception beams R 1 , ... R r of a radar antenna with electronic scanning. It performs a partial microwave summation of the signals received by the elementary antenna detectors, followed by an inconsistent summation in optics.
- An electronically scanned receiving antenna has n microwave signal detector subnets 1.
- Each column includes for example m detectors 1.
- Each detector is followed by a phase shifter 2.
- the phase shifters 2 are controlled by conventional means depending on the desired direction according to the component parallel to the column, for example vertical if the latter is vertical.
- the signals from the phase shifters are summed by a microwave combiner 3.
- the control device according to the invention therefore comprises means for carrying out a summation partial microwave of the signals received according to each column. These means notably include phase shifters 2 and their controls as well than microwave combiner 3. This partial summation is performed conventionally by known means.
- Each of the n columns provides therefore a signal summed according to a dimension of space, for example the vertical dimension.
- the optical sources L 1 , ... L n are for example lasers.
- Each optical source is for example followed by means 4 for generating a bi-frequency optical wave in cross polarization, a frequency being at ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f and a frequency at ⁇ / 2 ⁇ .
- the frequency f is that of the received signal.
- the frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ is the frequency of the optical wave produced by the light source L 1 , ... L n .
- a frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f is transmitted according to a first polarization, for example vertical E V.
- the other frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ is transmitted on a perpendicular polarization, for example horizontal E H , the two polarizations being perpendicular to the direction of transmission of the optical wave.
- the optical signal, of frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ is therefore transmitted according to a polarization while the optical signal modulated by the frequency f of the receiving microwave signal, of frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f, is transmitted according to the perpendicular polarization.
- the modulated optical signal can be obtained by a frequency translator which is for example an acousto-optical Bragg cell.
- each signal Before entering these optical phase shifting means, each signal enters a coupler optical 1 / r 6 which divides this signal into r optical signal, r being the number of radar reception beams to be formed.
- the n optical channels 7 originating from 4 means of dual-frequency wave generation are therefore each divided into r optical channels 8 by means of these optical couplers 1 / r, an optical channel being a path along which an optical signal propagates.
- the example of realization presented by the figure illustrates a mode of transmission of free space optical signals.
- a device according to the invention can however include optical channels 7, 8 which are optical guides or optical fibers.
- the nxr optical channels are directed to the optical phase-shifting means 5.
- the latter are for example a liquid crystal matrix which comprises nxr pixels.
- This phase matrix prints per pixel at one of the polarizations, according to an anisotropic regime, an optical phase controlled by an electric voltage.
- the frequency ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f becomes for example ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f + ⁇ i, i for the optical signal which meets the pixel i, j of line i and of column j on the phase matrix 5.
- the device according to invention has the means, not shown, of applying voltages to the pixels. These means apply a voltage V i, j to each pixel i, j .
- the optical phase shifting means 5 are for example followed by means 9 for amplitude weighting. These means act on the two polarizations E V , E H by modifying the amplitude of the two optical waves of each of the channels 8.
- These amplitude weighting means are for example a matrix of liquid crystals comprising nxr pixels. The amplitude weighting, like the phase shift, is controlled pixel by pixel by voltage control means not shown. Amplitude weighting is applied to each of the nxr optical signals 8.
- the device comprises r means for detecting the microwave signal assigned to each group of n optical signals.
- This signal is in fact the modulation signal at the reception frequency f having undergone the phase shifts ⁇ i, j .
- the n optical channels 7, divided according to the columns (for example vertically) into r channels before the matrices are after these latter grouped in lines (for example horizontally) to form r optical beams with n phase-shifted components and optionally weighted in amplitude.
- the channels are grouped using 1 / n 10 optical combiners.
- the n channels of each line are combined by a combiner 10.
- Each combiner 10 is followed by a 45 ° polarizer 11 which has for function of recombining the two polarizations in the same direction.
- the two coherent waves then interfere at the output of each polarizer 11.
- the latter is followed by a photodetector 12.
- a photodetector 12 detects thus a signal proportional to the phases and amplitudes printed on the elementary optical channels 8 by means 5 of optical phase shifts and the amplitude weighting means 9.
- the two waves therefore interfere at the entrance of the latter.
- Their spectral lines at ⁇ / 2 ⁇ + f and at ⁇ / 2 ⁇ beat so and the difference between the two lines then gives the frequency of reception f.
- the device according to the invention then makes it possible to obtain at the output of r photodetectors 12 r radar beams R 1 , ... R r formed in a fixed manner in one dimension where the combinations are carried out at microwave frequency and reconfigurable in the other dimension where the combinations are made in optics.
- This latter configuration of the beams is carried out at the level of the optical phase shifting means 5.
- the phase laws to be applied are for example programmed in means for controlling the pixel voltages of a liquid crystal matrix 5.
- amplitude weighting laws can for example be applied to the elementary channels 8 by the amplitude weighting means 9.
- the power Pj in each of the r output beams is then given by the following relation:
- the phases ⁇ ij are printed by the optical phase shifting means 5, and the powers P ij are for example weighted by the weighting means 9.
- a liquid crystal matrix with nxr pixels controllable in tension was presented as an example of realization of the means of optical phase shifts.
- This embodiment has in particular as advantage of being simple to implement. These means may well sure to be achieved otherwise.
- phase shifting means can also be replaced by means for creating time delays on the n x r elementary signals 8.
- These means can for example be a device for optical paths. switchable as described in French patent application No. 90 03386. The time delays then make it possible to process signals in a very instant broadband.
- the invention can be applied with optical technology in free propagation using liquid crystal matrices 5, 9 to exercise phase and amplitude weights. These weights can also be obtained in guided optics by performing on semiconductors, e.g. InP, light guides, couplers and phase and amplitude modulators. In this case, the presence of polarizers 11 is no longer required.
- semiconductors e.g. InP, light guides, couplers and phase and amplitude modulators.
- the presence of polarizers 11 is no longer required.
- a device has in particular the advantage of allow reconfiguration of radar reception beams by playing simply on the control voltages of phase 5 optical arrays and of amplitude 9, or any other means of optical phase shift, of creation of time delays or amplitude weights.
- This possibility is not offered to microwave combiners.
- the invention notably proposes an advantageous alternative to radar architectures with beam formation by calculation.
- analog beam formation by optics minimizes the number of receivers and considerably simplifies processing complexity.
- the partial combination of microwave as well as the optical summation of different beams allow in particular to alleviate the dynamic constraints which weigh on optical architectures for reception, since part of the orientation reception beams are processed by microwave techniques.
- the invention also provides a immunity to electromagnetic interference, weight gain and space saving, thanks to optical technologies. Finally, the invention applies to all radar frequency bands.
- each radiating element 1 emits or receives in a very large opening, but summing in a column or a line, a fine direction is preferred according to this column or this line.
- clutter of ground or sea is added to inconsistently from column to column and the signal-to-noise ratio then increases. It would not be the same in a horizontal direction where the ground or sea clutter would be added more coherently.
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- des moyens (2, 3) pour réaliser, dans le domaine hyperfréquence, une première combinaison partielle des signaux reçus, cette combinaison étant réalisée selon chaque colonne ;
- des moyens optiques pour réaliser une seconde combinaison partielle dans le domaine optique, les moyens optiques comportant au moins n sources optiques (L1,....Ln) produisant chacune un signal optique (7) modulé à la fréquence des signaux hyperfréquence de réception (f) par un signal de combinaison hyperfréquence associé, des moyens de division (6) de ce signal optique (7) en r signaux optiques (8), des moyens de déphasages optiques (5) de chacun des nxr signaux optiques obtenus, r moyens de combinaison (10) de chaque groupe de n signaux optiques et r moyens de détection (10, 11, 12) du signal hyperfréquence (f) affecté à chaque groupe de n signaux optiques pour former r faisceaux de réception hyperfréquence (R1, ...Rr).
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- des moyens pour réaliser, dans le domaine hyperfréquence, une première combinaison partielle des signaux reçus, cette combinaison étant réalisée selon chaque sous-réseau ;
- des moyens optiques pour réaliser une seconde combinaison partielle dans le domaine optique, les moyens optiques comportant au moins n sources optiques produisant chacune un signal optique modulé à la fréquence des signaux hyperfréquence de réception f par un signal de combinaison hyperfréquence associé, des moyens de division de ce signal optique en r signaux optiques, des moyens de déphasages optiques de chacun des nxr signaux optiques obtenus, r moyens de combinaison de chaque groupe de n signaux optiques et r moyens de détection du signal de modulation f affecté à chaque groupe de n signaux optiques pour former r faisceaux de réception hyperfréquence
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- Dispositif de commande pour la formation de faisceaux de réception radar d'une antenne à balayage électronique comportant un réseau de détecteurs d'un signal hyperfréquence de réception (1) disposés en n sous-réseaux de détecteurs, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte :des moyens (2, 3) pour réaliser, dans le domaine hyperfréquence, une première combinaison partielle des signaux reçus, cette combinaison étant réalisée selon chaque sous-réseau ;des moyens optiques pour réaliser une seconde combinaison partielle dans le domaine optique, les moyens optiques comportant au moins n sources optiques L1,...Ln associées chacune à un sous-réseau et produisant un signal optique (7) modulé par le signal issu de son sous-réseau, à la fréquence du signal hyperfréquence de réception (f), des moyens de division (6) de ce signal optique (7) en r signaux optiques (8), des moyens de déphasages optiques (5) de chacun des nxr signaux optiques obtenus, r moyens de combinaison (10) de chaque groupe de n signaux optiques et r moyens de détection (10, 11, 12) du signal hyperfréquence (f) affecté à chaque groupe de n signaux optiques pour former r faisceaux de réception hyperfréquence R1,...Rr.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les moyens optiques comportent en sortie de chaque source optique L1,...Ln des moyens (4) de génération d'une onde optique bi-fréquence en polarisation croisée, une fréquence étant à ω/2π + f et une fréquence à ω/2π, la fréquence f étant celle du signal reçu, la fréquence ω/2π étant la fréquence de l'onde optique produite par la source optique L1,...Ln, une fréquence ω/2π + f étant transmise selon une première polarisation, l'autre fréquence ω/2π étant transmise sur une polarisation perpendiculaire.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de déphasages optiques sont une matrice à cristaux liquides comportant nxr pixels, appliquant pixel par pixel un déphasage (ϕi,j) aux nxr signaux optiques issus des moyens de division (6), un déphasage étant commandé par une tension électrique (Vi,j).
- Dispositif selon les revendications 2 et 3, caractérisé en ce que le déphasage (ϕi,j) est appliqué à la polarisation véhiculant le signal à la fréquence ω/2π + f.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 4, caractérisé en ce qu'un moyen de détection d'un signal hyperfréquence comporte un polariseur 45° (10) recombinant les deux polarisations selon une même direction et un photodétecteur détectant le signal hyperfréquence.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les moyens optiques comportent, associés aux moyens de déphasages optiques (5), des moyens de pondération d'amplitudes (9), une pondération d'amplitude étant appliquée à chacun des nxr signaux optiques (8).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le signal optique est modulé par une cellule de Bragg.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les moyens de combinaison hyperfréquence comportent des déphaseurs hyperfréquences (2) et des moyens de commande de ces déphaseurs pour configurer les faisceaux de réception R1,...Rr selon la direction définie par les sous-réseaux.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les sous-réseaux sont des colonnes, les détecteurs des colonnes étant disposés verticalement.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que les sous-réseaux sont des lignes, les détecteurs des lignes étant disposés horizontalement.
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