An electric-field cross-correlation fourier transform millimeter wave spectrometer

The principle and fundamental structure of a millimeterwave electric-field cross-correlation Fourier transform spectrometer are presented. In the spctrometer, two pseudorandom binary sequences (PRBS) with controllable phase variation are used to modulate individually two wide bandwidth microwave signals with variable phase delay are obtained. And the Fourier transform of the crosscorrelation function of these microwave signals is the cross-power spectrum. Some experimental results about the spectrometer are given in 8mm-wave range.