期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
卷 69, 期 1, 页码 409-417出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2020.3030273
关键词
Fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL); frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW); heterodyne; range-Doppler spur masking (RDSM); spur chirps; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
资金
- Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), South Africa
This article explores the application of fractional-N phase-locked loops (PLLs) in FMCW radar, analyzes the generation of spur chirps, and introduces a new technique called RDSM specifically designed to suppress spur chirps. Research results indicate that RDSM outperforms existing techniques in terms of PSLR and effectively eliminates the impact of spur chirps in SAR imagery based on simulated and measured data.
Fractional-N phase-locked loops (PLLs) offer a low-cost solution to the precision frequency ramp requirements of frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. Regrettably, however, these PLLs are known to produce undesirable spurii in their synthesized output. A subset of these spurii has recently been shown to manifest as frequency chirps, also known as spur chirps, in the deramped beat signal. These so-called spur chirps give rise to Fresnel ripples in the range domain after standard Fourier processing. Spur chirps are of particular concern for heterodyne receiver systems because the Fresnel ripples may appear at levels that far exceed the noise floor. In this article, the authors present guidelines for the avoidance of spur chirps and identify existing interference suppression techniques that are transferable to this problem. Furthermore, the authors put forward a novel technique termed range-Doppler spur masking (RDSM) that was designed specifically for the suppression of spur chirps. The developed technique was applied to both the simulated and measured synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Simulations reveal that RDSM significantly outperforms time-domain zeroing in terms of peak sidelobe ratio (PSLR) and other metrics. When applied to the measured data, RDSM is shown to eliminate the effects of the spur chirps in SAR imagery when masking only 0.15% of the available Doppler bins.
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