Broadband microwave phase discriminator with ring detectors

The continuous growth in the range of the present electronics is guided by the progress of devices that are used for locating air objects, which "show'' their position by emitting a very short electronic impulse of the order of a few nanoseconds. Owing to the specification of the effect, one of the best circuits that help to determine the object's location is the microwave phase discriminator. This work presents a general principle of a classic functioning version of the discriminator with ring detectors. A newer version of the discriminator that is characterized by symmetry in structure, lower level of phase detection's errors and operation in a wider frequency band (than a classic version) was also proposed.