TEL 509E - Microwave System Engineering

Course Objectives

I- Gain the concepts used in the radio communications
II- Determine the RF system blocks
III- Investigate the noise, interference and distortion effects in RF systems
IV- Gain the ability of designing and analyzing of RF transmission systems, radars, remote
sensing and other microwave systems.

Course Description

Radio communications; system concepts, propagation and noise.
Passive and active components used in transmitters and receivers: Transmisson lines, matching
circuits, microwave filters. Amplifiers, oscillators and other active components.
Noise and non-linear distortion. Interference and intermodulation effects.
Downconverter design. Modulators and demodulators in RF systems.
Active and passive microwave network analysis and design. Antennas, RF link parameters and
channel modelling. RF link design. Space and frequency diversity systems and combiners used
in RF links. RF components for wireless and Ultra Wideband systems Radar and radiometer
systems. System design examples: GPS and satellite systems.