Following an introductory discussion of the interferometric method, the essential building block of an interferometric system, the interferometric link, is discussed, especially with reference to the transmit-receive problem and to the noise problem in a frequency tracking circuit. One form of phase-locked loop is discussed in connection with the latter. Several possible interferometric applications are listed and a table is presented in which an attempt has been made at estimating the essential parameters of each system.
Published in:
Space Electronics and Telemetry, IRE Transactions on
(Volume:SET-5
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Dec. 1959