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2011-2012 University Catalog

TCOM 707 - Advanced Link Design

Credits: 3 (NR)
Topics include advanced satellite link design such as VSAT optimization, intersatellite systems, and propagation mitigation trade-offs; radar link design such as primary and secondary radars, range ambiguities, false alarms, Doppler radar, FM radar, radar tracking, radar transmitters and receivers, and phased array radars; terrestrial wireless link design including line of sight, LMDS, and nonline of sight; optical link design including laser options, diffraction limits, lidar and communications links, tracking limitations, and GEO and LEO intersatellite link design; Wi-Fi link design; and directed energy systems.

Prerequisite(s): TCOM 551, TCOM 607, or permission of instructor.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0