Sidelobe canceller

• US 4,586,048 A
• Filed: 03/04/1971
• Issued: 04/29/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force
• Original Assignee: United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force
• Inventors: Downie, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barron, Jr., Gilberto
• Application Number:
  US05/121,185
• Time in Patent Office: 5,535 Days
• Field of Search: 343/18 E, 343/18 R, 343/100 LE, 343/100 R, 343/379, 343/380, 343/381, 343/382, 343/383, 343/384
• US Class Current: 342/379
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/2813 Means providing a modification of the radiation pattern for cancelling noise, clutter or interfering signals, e.g. side lobe suppression, side lobe blanking, null-steering arrays specially adapted to secondary radar systems G01S13/762; aerials or aerials systems H01Q21/29, H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/36 Means for anti-jamming , e.g. ECCM, i.e. electronic counter-counter measures

Abstract

An intermediate frequency sidelobe canceller having two cancellation points, one delayed with respect to the other. By utilizing the control signal generated by the loop associated with the undelayed cancellation point to control the cancelling signal at the delayed cancellation point, the "lock-on" time of the delayed cancellation point can be reduced to zero.

Claims

1. A sidelobe canceller comprising:

a. a directional antenna;

b. a first local oscillator;

c. a first mixer means fed by the directional antenna and the first local oscillator;

d. an omnidirectional antenna;

e. a second mixer means fed by the omnidirectional antenna;

f. a first subtracting circuit means fed by the first and second mixer means;

g. a third mixer means fed by a first subtracting circuit and the omnidirectional antenna;

h. a narrow band filter fed by the third mixer means, the filtered output of the third mixer means constituting a second input to the second mixer means;

i. a first delay circuit means fed by the omnidirectional antenna;

j. a fourth mixer means fed by the filtered output of the third mixer means and the delayed output of the omnidirectional antenna;

k. a second delay circuit means fed by the first mixer means; and

l. a second subtracting circuit means fed by the fourth mixer means and the delayed output of the first mixer means.

2. A sidelobe canceller according to claim 1 which further comprises a variable amplitude control interposed between the fourth mixer means and the second subtracting circuit means.

3. A sidelobe canceller according to claim 1 which further comprises a variable phase control interposed between the filtered output of said third mixer means and the second input of said fourth mixer means.