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What Is Pulse Shaping?
 The electromagnetic environment is changing at an increasing
pace, and thus the importance of electronic warfare (EW) system adaptability, flexibility,
and innovation has also increased. However the RF high power system amplifier has not evolved
in any significant way since the inclusion of the microcontroller twenty years ago. That's
a remarkable statement given the advancements seen in virtually every other application of
electronic products and systems. Not only are innovative technologies needed, the EW systems
engineer will benefit greatly from the new capabilities that a software defined, re-configurable,
smart high power amplifier can provide.
One such capability is the breakthrough for
pulse shaping where the HPA reproduces the pulse with extreme high fidelity
and by doing so removes that task from the system integrator. Additional benefits include
simplifying external hardware, lowering overall cost and improving SWaP.
Webinar Title:
Pulse Shaping in High Power Solid State Jamming Amplifiers
When: Thursday, November 30, 12 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: Marriott Marquis Hotel Marquis Ballroom, Meeting Level
2
Presenter: Paulo Correa
Pulse shaping, as it is done today, is an effort to fix fidelity issues caused by the transmitting
amplifier and is accomplished by a combination of imperfect methods, most external to the
amplifier. In this technical session, Paulo Correa will describe a new high power amplifier
architecture with built in real time feedback that is capable of matching the input signal
shape, minimizing droop, overshoot, ringing, rise and fall times.
Real world examples and data will be shown from an amplifier simulating pulsed jamming
scenarios to illustrate the performance problems and their sources within the HPA and why
future amplifier performance issues will be resolved within the amplifier using real time
digital correction. Finally, the workshop will illustrate the benefits of the proposed amplifier
architecture including:
- Real time optimization of the PA pulse characteristics
- Reduce system engineering design time
- Reduce overall size and weight of the jamming system
- Reduced hardware to correct droop
- Adaptive digital correction of the pulse in the event of variable VSWR
Speaker's Bio
Paulo Correa is Empower RF's CTO with 41 years of experience in RF and microwave with past
roles including Director of Advanced Studies at Thales and CTO at Thomson Broadcast and Multimedia.
With 13 patents to his name, Mr. Correa is also the architect of Empower's intelligent and
flexible Next Generation series of amplifiers.
 Visit Empower
RF Systems' Booth at AOC Convention
Empower RF Systems will be exhibiting at this year's AOC convention at Booth 314. Empower
RF Systems is conducting remote live demonstrations of our broadband, high power 1KW, 1 to
3 GHz amplifier. The amplifier will be housed at our headquarters in Los Angeles and viewed
in the AOC exhibit venue with live streaming video while remotely controlling the amplifier
from the exhibit floor through a standard web browser.
About Empower RF
Empower RF Systems is a technologically superior supplier of High Power Solid State RF &
Microwave Amplifiers. Our offerings include modules, intelligent rack-mount amplifiers, and
multi-function RF Power Amplifier solutions to 6GHz, with output power combinations ranging
from tens of watts to multi-kilowatts. Key capabilities and differentiators include Unprecedented
size, weight and power reduction, patented architecture that includes an internal "connector-less"
RF path (an industry first) with the added benefit of an inherently rugged design, user interface
and diagnostics capabilities built around high performance microprocessors and an IP addressable,
embedded web server.
Contact:
Corporate Offices: Empower RF Systems, Inc. 316 W. Florence Avenue Inglewood,
CA 90301 P: +1 (310) 412-8100 F: +1 (310) 412-9232
sales@empowerrf.com
www.EmpowerRF.com
Posted November 17, 2017
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