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- How do you find the minimum SNR?
- What is MDS in RF?
- What is minimum detectable signal in radar?
- What is minimum detectable optical power?
How do you find the minimum SNR?
If you have the signals in decibels (dB), subtract noise from the signal. If your calculations are in watts, use the power signal-to-noise ratio formula SNR = 10 × log(signal / noise) . If your calculations are in volts, use the voltage signal-to-noise ratio formula SNR = 20 × log(signal / noise) .
What is MDS in RF?
The minimum detectable signal (MDS) is the minimum signal power level over the background noise that can be detected & processed by a receiver/detector to provide the required output. For proper detection, the signal power level should be more than the noise floor or background noise.
What is minimum detectable signal in radar?
A minimum detectable signal is a signal at the input of a system whose power allows it to be detected over the background electronic noise of the detector system. It can alternately be defined as a signal that produces a signal-to-noise ratio of a given value m at the output.
What is minimum detectable optical power?
Minimum Detectable Optical Power
The NEP of a detector is the optical power incident to. the detector that needs to be applied to equal the noise. power from all sources in the detector; in other words, NEP is the optical power that results in an SNR of 1 [2].
