Fractional Fourier Transform Receiver for Modulated Chirp Waveforms
Nikita Petrov (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
O. Yarovoy (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
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Abstract
A novel receiver structure for the reception of linearly frequency modulated (LFM) chirps carrying additional narrowband (phase) modulation is proposed. A linear relation between the time delay and the beat frequency shift of the target response in stretch processing is exploited to estimate the target range via correlation of the received signal with the replica in a Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) domain. According to numerical simulations, the proposed FrFT receiver demonstrates improved performance and computational efficiency over the state-of-the-art solutions for the moderate-to-large bandwidth of the information-carrying modulation. The receiver was integrated into the waveform-agile radar polarimetric agile radar in S band (PARSAX) and its performance has also been verified experimentally.