The 20 x 20 high speed microwave switches
Abstract
Tests were conducted at NASA Lewis Research Center to characterize the proof-of-concept matrix switches built under NASA contract by Ford Aerospace and Aeronautics Corporation at Palo Alto, California, and the General Electric Company at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The contract requirements and goals are tabulated along with the results of the NASA tests. Characteristics examined are bandwidth, insertion loss, ripple, switching speed, isolation, standing wave ratio (input and output), deviation from linear phase, noise figure, reconfiguration rates, spurious responses, gain compression, and third order intermodulation distortion. A brief description of the testing method and a statistical analysis of the test results for each of the switches are provided.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- September 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984STIN...8432644S
- Keywords:
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- Bandwidth;
- Communication Satellites;
- Intermodulation;
- Microwave Switching;
- Switches;
- Architecture (Computers);
- Computerized Simulation;
- Distortion;
- Standing Waves;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Communications and Radar