EXTRAPOLATION OF RF ECHO DATA BASED ON AR MODELING

Autoregressive (AR) modeling is applied to data extrapolation of radio frequency (RF) echo signals, and Burg algorithm, which can be computed in small amount and lead to a stable prediction filter, is used to estimate the prediction parameters of AR modeling. The complex data samples are directly extrapolated to obtain the extrapolated echo data in the frequency domain. The small rotating angle data extrapolation and the large rotating angular data extrapolation are considered separately in azimuth domain. The method of data extrapolation for the small rotating angle is the same as that in frequency domain, while the amplitude samples of large rotating angle echo data are extrapolated to obtain extrapolated echo amplitude, and the complex data of large rotating angle echo samples are extrapolated to get the extrapolated echo phase respectively. The calculation results show that the extrapolated echo data obtained by the above mentioned methods are accurate.

PIC/MCC Simulation of Radio Frequency Hollow Cathode Discharge in Nitrogen

A two-dimensional PIC/MCC model is developed to simulate the nitrogen radio frequency hollow cathode discharge（rf-HCD）.It is found that both the sheath oscillation heating and the secondary electron heating together play a role to maintain the rf-HCD under the simulated conditions.The mean energy of ions（N＋_2,N＋）in the negative glow region is greater than the thermal kinetic energy of the molecular gas（N2）,which is an important characteristic of rf-HCD.During the negative portion of the hollow electrode voltage cycle,electrons mainly follow pendulum movement and produce a large number of ionization collisions in the plasma region.During the positive voltage of the rf cycle,the axial electric field becomes stronger and its direction is pointing to the anode（substrate）,therefore the ions move toward the anode（substrate）via the axial electric field acceleration.Compared with dc-HCD,rf-HCD is more suitable for serving as a plasma jet nozzle at low pressure.

Experimental study on pulse radar target probing in RFS based on interrupted transmitting and receiving

Radar target probing and measurement are challenging tasks for Radio Frequency Simulation（RFS） with pulse radar signal. Due to the long-time duration of pulse radar signal and the limited space of anechoic chamber, the reflected signal returns before pulse radar signal is fully transmitted in RFS. As a consequence, the transmitted and reflected signals are coupled at the receiver. To handle this problem, the Interrupted Transmitting and Receiving（ITR） experiment system is constructed in this paper by dividing the pulse radar signal into sub-pulses. The target echo can be obtained by transmitting and receiving the sub-pulses intermittently. Furthermore, the principles of ITR are discussed and the target probing experiments are performed with the ITR system. It is demonstrated that the ITR system can overcome the coupling between the reflected and transmitted signals. Based on the target probing results, the performance of pulse radar target probing and measurement can be verified in RFS with the ITR system.