Abstract
A photonics-based scheme is proposed to generate wideband linear frequency modulation pulses with broadly tunable carrier frequencies for coherent radars. The approach integrates the concept of the microwave-photonic multiplication and coherent beating to enable reconfiguration of the bandwidth and carrier frequency of the generated pulses. The phase fluctuation between two beating arms is suppressed by a stabilization technique based on an optical phase-locked loop to maintain the pulse-to-pulse phase coherence. Further, we also demonstrate a coherent radar system, including the generation, wireless transmission and detection of the radar echo signal in the Ka-band. The coherent integration of several echo signals is achieved. About 8 dB of signal-to-noise ratio improvement is obtained with every ten-fold of integration times. The range resolution of the radar system is , which is close to the theoretical prediction.
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