METHOD FOR SWITCHING MICROWAVE CIRCUITS TRANSMITTING INFORMATION MESSAGES WITH PULSE BURST SIGNALS Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: microwave engineering; handling microwave circuits by means of semiconductor switches built around p-i-n diodes. SUBSTANCE: method involves driving p-i-n diodes in conduction in desired combination which handle microwave signal during initial passage of pulse burst and reliably cutting them off upon completion of pulse burst passage; for driving p-i-n diodes in conduction, use is made of transmitter modulator control signals which are supplied during each transmitted radio pulse at the same time affording cut-off of p-i-n diodes within pulse burst after separate or several closely located pulses by cleaning out stored charge in p-i-n diodes. EFFECT: reduced input current, simplified design of hardware. 6 dwg , 1 tbl