We demonstrated a photonics-based X-band radar system, in which the transmitter generates a linear frequency modulated signal centered at 10GHz with 2GHz bandwidth based on photonic arbitrary waveform generator (PAWG), and the receiver is based on photonic de-chirping. We conducted a field experiment on this radar system and achieved inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging of non-cooperative targets (airplane), verified the possibility of its application in future radar applications.
A photonic-assisted dual-band coherent radar transmitter system with a large frequency tunable range is proposed and demonstrated. This dual-band transmitter is composed of a triple-loop optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) link, a low frequency band subsystem (LFBS) and a high frequency band subsystem (HFBS). The triple-loop OEO link is developed for the generation of an ultralow phase noise microwave signal with a large tunable range, microwave photonic down-converting is used in the LFBS to change band range, microwave photonic frequency multiplying is applied in the HFBS to achieve the bandwidth extension. The band ranges of the proposed dual-band transmitter can cover from S to Ka six bands in all. Performances in the time and the frequency domains of the dual-band microwave signals are also investigated.
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