Basic principles
Radars; basic principles - constitutive components
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Basic principles
Radars; basic principles - constitutive components

Author : Jacques DARRICAU

Publication date: February 10, 2012, Review date: December 1, 2022 | Lire en français

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2. Basic principles

2.1 Electromagnetic wave

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2.1.1 General

The electromagnetic wave is the carrier vector of the radar signal. It is characterized by the simultaneous presence of an electric field: E and a magnetic field: H, perpendicular to each other, sinusoidal variables of time, of the same pulsation: ω = 2πf and of the same phase, with wave propagation in the direction :

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