Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
An acousto-optic spectrometer (AOS) used as an IF spectrometer to a heterodyne receiver is modeled as a total power multi-channel integrating receiver. Systematic noise contributions common to all total power, time integrating receivers, as well as noise terms unique to the use of optical elements and photo-detectors in an AOS are identified and discussed. In addition, degradation of signal-to-noise ratio of an unbalanced Dicke receiver compared to a balanced Dicke receiver is found to be due to gain calibration processing and is not an instrumental effect.
Keywords:
ACOUSTICS
Type:
NASA-TM-85613
,
X-693-84-9
,
NAS 1.15:85613
Format:
application/pdf