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      Dual-band LFM-CW Radar Scheme Based on Photonic Stretch Processing

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          A dual-band LFM-CW radar scheme which is based on photonic stretch processing is proposed. The receiver which is based on a photonic frequency down-converter is able to receive the radar echoes of two bands with a single hardware. A dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying modulator is employed to implement the modulation scheme. The reference signals and echoes of two bands are modulated to orthogonally polarized light waves and sent to a Pol-demux coherent receiver through an amplifier and a filter, respectively, to perform stretch processing. In the transmitter, the reference and transmitted LFM signals with high frequency and wide bandwidth are generated by a photonic-assisted frequency multiplication module. Meanwhile, the generated signal is delayed before transmission. Thus, at the output of the coherent receiver, IF signals corresponding to two bands can be separated in the frequency domain. An experimental system operating in Cand Ku-bands with transmitting signal bandwidths of 1 and 2 GHz, respectively, is demonstrated and evaluated via a series of inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging tests, and the sampling rate of analog to digital converters is 100 MSa/s. The results show that the microwave photonics technology can provide solutions for receiving dual-band signal with a single hardware platform.

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          Journal
          Journal of Radars
          Chinese Academy of Sciences
          01 April 2019
          : 8
          : 2
          : 189-196
          Affiliations
          [1 ] ①(Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)②(National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China)③(University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
          [2 ] ①(Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)②(National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China)
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          b18cb557f9fc401eaca9ffcfe0ec5877
          10.12000/JR18119
          7e498ad1-c0dd-43d8-af6d-aed72b91806c

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          Technology (General)
          T1-995

          Remote sensing,Electrical engineering
          Dual-band radar,Photonics-assisted mixer,Photonic frequency multiplication,LFM-CW radar,Stretch processing

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