600 GHz imaging radar with 2 cm range resolution

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1371-1374

  Dengler, R J ^a   Cooper, K B ^a   Chattopadhyay, G ^a   Mehdi, I ^a   Schlecht, E ^a   Skalare, A ^a   Chen, C ^b   Siegel, P H ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMCW chirp radar; Radar imaging; Submillimeter wave imaging; Submillimeter wave radar; THz radar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

BAND SYNTHESIZERS; DISTORTION COMPENSATION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 34748848664     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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