Federal Register: December 6, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 234)
DOCID: fr06de07-30 FR Doc E7-23644
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Army Department
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr06de07-30
ACTION: Patent licenses; non-exclusive, exclusive, or partially exclusive:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Availability for Non-Exclusive, Exclusive, or Partially Exclusive Licensing of U.S. Patent Concerning a Device and Method for Determining All Components of the Stokes Polarization Vector Within a Radar Signal
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
In accordance with 37 CFR 404.6 and 404.7, announcement is made of the availability for licensing of the invention set forth in U.S. Patent No. 6,762,713 entitled ``A Device and Method for Determining All Components of the Stokes Polarization Vector within a Radar Signal,'' issued on July 13, 2004. The United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, has rights in this invention.
SUMMARY:
Device and method for determining components of the Stokes Polarization Vector within radar signal,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The invention pertains to measuring the
polarization state of a wideband electromagnetic signal. A polarimeter
includes a first antenna for receiving the electromagnetic signal and a
modulator. The modulator is interconnected with the first antenna for
modulating the electromagnetic signal. A modulated electromagnetic
signal results that contains a different polarization state for each
frequency of the electromagnetic signal, and wherein the amplitude of
each frequency component of the modulated electromagnetic signal is a
function of the particular polarization state of each frequency
component of the electromagnetic signal. The modulator may be
configured to modulate at a radar frequency. A linear polarizer passes
a first predetermined polarization of the modulated electromagnetic
signal through a first output thereof. A first receiver includes a
detector for receiving and demodulating the modulated electromagnetic signal from the linear polarizer.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. E723644 Filed 12507; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 371008P
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Office of Research and Technology Applications, email:
susan.mcrae@smdc.army.mil; (256) 9551501.