Recently, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technique has drawn a lot of attention in various
applications where the high resolution performance is needed due to its cost-eectiveness and low complexity
as well as the high resolution performance. One of degradation factors in the technique is the characteristics of
nonlinear phase distortion in transmitted waveform. The phase distortion degrades the resolution performance,
that is, the contrast and resolution of the obtained range prole or image can be degraded. Especially, as the
system with FMCW technique requires higher resolution performance and longer range coverage, the degradation
problem becomes more severe hence it can be limited to be utilized for long-range applications like synthetic
aperture radar (SAR). This paper proposes the novel algorithms to estimate the nonlinear phase distortion
without any expensive devices but only one reference delay line and provides a favorable condition for parallel
processing in the algorithms. The estimate of the distortion can be utilized for designing predistortion to
compensate it. Simulation result obtained with an arbitrarily generated nonlinear phase distortion, demonstrates
that the proposed scheme has outstanding estimation performance.
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