基于互逆光纤色散的微波光子雷达系统设计和实现

提出一种基于互逆光纤色散的微波光子雷达系统设计方案,既可以产生宽带线性调频信号,又可以实现线性调频信号的光域脉冲压缩.在发射端利用互逆色散光纤产生线性调频信号.在接收端,雷达回波信号通过马赫-曾德调制器调制到预啁啾的光信号上,然后经过色散光纤的进一步色散.最终在探测器端可以得到目标回波信号脉冲压缩后的结果.该方案无需脉冲压缩过程中数字化和离线处理,且具有脉冲压缩比的调谐作用.理论、数值仿真和实验证明了该设计方案能有效进行线性调频信号的光域脉冲压缩.实验产生了C波段下时宽1.2ns,带宽3.2GHz的线性调频信号,并通过互逆色散光纤将该信号压缩到了0.09ns,脉冲压缩比达13.3.     

低信噪比线性调频信号目标的方位估计

线性调频(LFM)信号目标的方位估计是水声探测研究的重要内容,在进行方位估计时,若存在强干扰信号源与强背景噪声,阵元接收信号的信噪比会显著降低,严重影响LFM信号目标方位估计结果的准确性.针对该问题,提出了一种简明分数阶滤波方法,并将其与常规波束形成方法(CBF)相结合来实现低信噪比条件下LFM信号目标的方位估计.简明分数阶傅里叶变换能在正交角度上将LFM信号的能量聚集在特定频点处并形成明显的能量峰,利用该特性,可对阵列各阵元接收的低信噪比LFM信号在简明分数阶域聚集的能量峰进行最佳滤波,以滤除干扰信息及背景噪声.对滤波输出进行逆简明分数阶傅里叶变换可得到增强信干比和信噪比的阵元域信号,进一步用于目标方位估计,就能获得更加准确的目标方位。数值仿真结果和海试实验数据处理结果验证表明,本文所提出的方法可有效抑制干扰和背景噪声,并对低信噪比LFM信号进行准确、稳健的方位估计。      

声光偏转效应载频测量的方法研究

针对现代载频测量对信号的实时捕获、频率带宽和分辨率的要求,提出了一种利用声光偏转效应的相干光信号处理方法。从理论上对声光效应的Bragg衍射机理和条件进行了描述,分析了随机载频信号捕获、带宽特性和频率分辨率与声光偏转的关系,给出了系统的构成原理和测试方法。通过实验测试和计算机仿真,证明了声光偏转技术能很好地解决并行随机载频信号和频率分辨率的问题,系统性能和信号的实时处理效果得到了明显的改善,带宽达到了300MHz,频率分辨率优于1MHz。这种方法对随机信号载频的跟踪和测量精度优势突出,可应用于雷达信号探测和光电对抗。     

Influence of the size,geometry and temporal response of the finite piezoelectric sensor on the photoacoustic signal: the case of the point-like source

Most photoacoustic (PA) work assumes a point-like detection of generated pressure waves; this assumption results in important differences between predicted and experimental signals, as shown in this paper. We used the geometry of a real sensor in the theoretical signal generation through the discretization of the sensing surface, considering each element as a point-like sensor. We modeled the interaction between the wavefront and the real sensor, starting from a well-known PA pressure relation for a point-like source and punctual detection. We obtained the electrical response of the real sensor experimentally and modeled it as a summation of Gaussian functions. The impulse response was convolved with the total PA pressure to obtain the theoretical PA signal. We analyzed the dependence of the source-sensor distance on the discretization size. Then the predicted signal and experimental data were compared for two different frequency response transducers. We found differences in shape and temporal width of simulated PA signals for point-like-source/punctual-detection model and for point-like-source/finite-sensor model.     

Switchable down-, up- and dual-chirped microwave waveform generation with improved time-bandwidth product based on polarization modulation and phase encoding

A switchable down-, up- and dual-chirped microwave waveform generation technique with improved time-bandwidth product (TBWP) is proposed and demonstrated based on a dual-polarization dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-DPMZM) cascaded with a polarization modulator (PolM). By properly controlling the phase shifts of the radio frequency signals applied to the DP-DPMZM, switchable down-, up- and dual-chirped waveforms with simultaneous frequency and bandwidth doubling can be generated. To enlarge the TBWP further, splitting parabolic signal and phase-encoding splitting parabolic signal are used to drive the PolM for the enhancement of bandwidth and time duration. Numerical results demonstrate the generation of down-, up- and dual-chirped microwave waveform with TBWP of 8, 160 and 10240. The proposed method may find applications in future multifunction radar systems due to the high performance and flexibility.     

Scheme for nonlinear frequency modulated signal cancelling system

A cancelling system for the four nonlinear frequency modulated (NLFM) signal (i.e. Taylor window, Tangent-based, Combination linear frequency modulation (LFM) and tan-FM, Stepped NLFM) is presented. It is mainly composed of a digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip etc. The received signals are stored and reproduced by DRFM, and the system delay time is controlled by the FPGA chip. According to the target's radar cross section (RCS), the radar echo cancelling wave will be generated by the FPGA and DRFM on signal processing. The effect of error on the cancelling wave is analysed and the method for reducing nonlinear phase errors is presented. Theoretical analysis and simulation show that the system effectively reduces the signal power received by the radar receiver. Numerical simulation results show that about 11.3 dB target gain reduction can be achieved under the condition of large deviation.     

The optimum bandwidth of chirp signals in ultrasonic applications

A new formula for the pulse-compression ratio achievable with linear FM pulses (chirp signals) in ultrasonic applications is derived. The calculations take into account the frequently omitted effects of the transfer function of an ultrasonic transducer. For a squared-cosine type transducer spectrum, the optimum chirp signal bandwidth is 1.14 times the 6 dB bandwidth of the transducer. The pulse-compression ratio is 2.24 dB lower than in the case of an ideal broadband transducer. Measurements show a close agreement with the presented theory.     

Acceleration target detection based on LFM radar

In radar systems, the echo signal caused by an accelerated target can be similarly considered as linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal. In high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), discrete polynomial-phase transform (DPT) algorithm can be used to detect the echo signal, as it has low computation complexity and high real-time performance. However, in low SNR, the DPT algorithm has a large mean square error of the rate of frequency modulation and a low detection probability. In order to detect LFM signal in low SNR, this paper proposes a detection method, segment discrete polynomial-phase transform (SDPT), which means, at first, dividing the whole echo pulses into several segments with same duration in time domain, and then, using coherent accumulation method of DFT to segments, at last, processing this signal with DPT in intra-segment. In the case of a large number of segments, the SDPT can improve the output SNR. In addition, in a certain SNR, to the target signal with big sampling interval, large acceleration and less segments, this paper proposes an algorithm to detect the LFM signal generated from the combination of an improved DPT (IDPT) and fractional Fourier transform (FRFT). The output SNR of this algorithm is connected with the length of time delay. In the simulation, when the length of the time delay is 0.2 N, the output SNR is 2.5 dB more than that which results from directly using DPT. Finally, the detection performance and algorithm complexity of the proposed algorithm were analyzed, and the simulated and measured data verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.     

水下回波处理中分数阶傅里叶变换的带通采样实现方法

利用球形压电陶瓷自身所具有的耐压能力,采用径向极化空气背衬压电球壳换能器作为声学接收敏感元件,设计并制作了一种球形耐压水听器。首先对其低频开路接收灵敏度和谐振频率等声学特性进行了分析和有限元仿真,然后对其强度和稳定性等耐压性能进行了分析和有限元仿真,最后对其声学性能和耐压能力进行了测试。测试表明,该球形耐压水听器的直径为36 mm,工作频段为50 Hz10 kHz,低频接收灵敏度为􀀀198:4 dB(0 dB=1 V/Pa),等效自噪声谱级为46.5 dB@1 kHz,其耐压深度可达3000 m。该耐压水听器为大深度水听器设计提供了参考,在深水声学领域具有重要的应用价值。     

Analytical model of signal amplification in silicon waveguides

In this paper, an analytical model to investigate the parametric amplification (PA) and the PA + stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in silicon waveguides is put forward. When two pump signals are employed, the PA bandwidth of the probe signal is so large that the Raman contribution has to be considered. When Raman contribution fraction f is set to be 0, only the PA occurs to amplify the probe signal, and when f is set to be 0.043, the PA and the SRS amplify the probe signal at the same time. The signal amplifications of both single and dual pump schemes are investigated by using this model. With this model, three main affecting factors, i.e., zero dispersion wavelength (ZDWL), third-order dispersion (TOD), and fourth-order dispersion (FOD), are discussed in detail.     

伪随机编码超宽带短脉冲的探测能力研究

 为进行弱信号检测,研究在脉冲雷达中获得大信号时间宽度与信号带宽积的方法,利用伪随机编码方法调制超宽带短脉冲,可以在保持子脉冲信号带宽的情况下,以低功率发射长脉冲串类噪声信号,而提高信号的能量,提高探测距离。通过仿真实验得出,利用伪随机编码技术可以使超宽带信号具有更强的探测能力,可以在回波信号功率水平远远小于噪声水平（如信噪比5%）的情况下实现对探测目标的高保真成像。     

Broadband photonic ADC for microwave photonics-based radar receiver

A broadband photonic analog-to-digital converter(ADC) for X-band radar applications is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. An X-band signal with arbitrary waveform and a bandwidth up to 2 GHz can be synchronously sampled and processed due to the optical sampling structure. In the experiment, the chirp signal centered at 9 GHz with a bandwidth of 1.6 GHz is sampled and down-converted with a signal-to-noise ratio of 7.20 d B and an improved noise figure. Adopting the photonic ADC in the radar receiver and the above signal as the transmitted radar signal, an X-band inverse synthetic aperture radar system is set up, and the range and cross-range resolutions of 9.4 and 8.3 cm are obtained, respectively.     

The concise fractional Fourier transform and its application in detection and parameter estimation of the linear frequency-modulated signal

A concise fractional Fourier transform(CFRFT) is proposed to detect the linear frequency-modulated(LFM) signal with low signal to noise ratio(SNR).The frequency axis in time-frequency plane of the CFRFT is rotated to get the spectrum of the signal in different angles using chirp multiplication and Fourier transform(FT).For LFM signal which distributes as a straight line in time-frequency plane,the CFRFT can gather the energy in the corresponding angle as a peak and improve the detection SNR,thus the LFM signal of low SNR can be detected.Meanwhile,the location of the peak value relates to the parameters of the LFM signal.Numerical simulations and experimental results show that,the proposed method can be used to efficiently detect the LFM signal masked by noise and to estimate the signal's parameters accurately.Compared with the conventional fractional Fourier transform(FRFT),the CFRFT reduces the transform complexity and improves the real-time detection performance of LFM signal.     

简明分数阶傅里叶变换及其对线性调频信号的检测和参数估计

针对低信噪比下线性调频信号的检测问题,提出了一种简明分数阶傅里叶变换方法。该变换借助chirp相乘和傅里叶变换对时频平面上的频率轴进行旋转,以获取信号在各个角度下频率轴上的频谱分布。对时频分布呈直线状的线性调频信号,简明分数阶傅里叶变换能在特定角度上将信号能量聚集成尖锐的强能量峰,从而提高信噪比,实现对线性调频信号的可靠检测和参数估计。数值仿真和实验验证结果表明,简明分数阶傅里叶变换可对较低信噪比的线性调频信号实现有效检测,并由变换域峰值的位置对信号参数进行准确估计。相比于传统的分数阶傅里叶变换方法,简明分数阶傅里叶变换的复杂度更低,离散计算效率更高,在对噪声掩盖下的线性调频信号进行检测和参数估计时能更好地满足实时处理的要求。      

Effects of size and arrangement of virtual transducer on photoacoustic tomography

In this paper, we investigate the effects of the relative size and arrangement of a virtual transducer on the image quality in limited-view photoacoustic tomography. A virtual transducer refers to the acoustic scatterers used to reflect photoacoustic waves and improve the images reconstructed from incomplete PA signal. Size and spatial arrangement determine the performance of the virtual transducer. In this study, the scatterers utilized as virtual transducers are arranged in different manners, such as on a straight line or on an arc line. We find that virtual transducers with a big distributing angle can provide more significant image improvement than with a small distributing angle, which is similar to the true transducers. We also change the size of virtual transducer and study its influence on image quality. It is found that the bigger scatterers provide better images than the smaller ones. Especially, when the size of scatterers is reduced to the wavelength of photoacoustic wave, the image quality observably decreases, owing to the strong diffraction effect. Thus, it is suggested that the size of the acoustical scatterers should be much larger than the photoacoustic wavelength. The simulations are conducted, and the results could be helpful for the application and further study of virtual transducer theory in limited-view photoacoustic tomography.     

0.14 THz高分辨力成像雷达信号处理

为适应0.14 THz超高分辨雷达实时成像的需求,开发了基于CPU+GPU+FPGA的硬件架构和成像处理算法,算法以距离-多普勒为原型,引入L类维格纳分布变换提高横向分辨力,用Keystone变换方法对越距离单元徙动进行校正,并开发了系统非线性补偿算法。在载频0.14 THz、带宽5 GHz雷达样机上进行了逆合成孔径雷达成像试验,获得了3 cm3 cm的成像分辨力和实时成像能力,验证了信号处理方法的有效性。     

任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累

现代声呐、水下制导等水声探测系统常常使用窄带脉冲、调制、编码、伪随机等种类繁多的发射信号波形来满足低信噪比检测、高分辨估计、抗干扰、主动隐蔽探测的应用需求.针对这一情况,本文研究了任意信号的长时间积累问题,给出了一种任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累检测方法.通过构建任意发射信号波形的广义模糊函数,将匹配滤波器输出表示为所构造的广义模糊函数,使得任意复包络信号的脉压波形不仅能够用统一的数学模型来表述和计算,而且能够提供多脉冲回波的距离走动信息和多普勒频移信息,为多脉冲距离位置对齐和Fourier变换(FFT)积累提供了依据.对于用广义模糊函数表示的匹配滤波器输出,采用Keystone变换将复包络对齐,消除了距离走动,采用FFT补偿多普勒频移项,实现了任意复包络信号的长时间相干积累.对于水下探测中使用的连续波信号、线性调频信号以及复杂的m序列编码信号、Costas跳频编码信号波形进行了信号积累及检测的计算机仿真,验证了任意复包络信号的匀速运动目标回波脉间补偿及相干积累的正确性.消声水池实验验证了该方法的有效性.     

Molecular relaxation effects in hydrogen chloride photoacoustic detection

A photoacoustic (PA) sensor has been developed to monitor hydrogen chloride at sub-ppm level in the 1740-nm region. The system was designed to control the process in the novel low-water-peak optical fiber manufacturing process. Relaxation effects in hydrogen chloride PA detection in oxygen–helium and nitrogen–helium gas mixtures are presented, showing that the generation of the PA signal is strongly affected by the ratio of these substances. In addition, the role of water vapor in the PA signal is investigated.     

超声换能器对线性调频信号脉冲压缩性能的影响分析

该文研究了不同编码带宽下超声换能器对编码信号脉冲压缩后信噪比与轴向分辨率的影响关系。将脉冲压缩后的时域峰值转化为频域积分的形式,得到考虑换能器影响的脉冲压缩信噪比公式。以线性调频信号为例,仿真与实验结果表明,编码激励相对于方波激励的信噪比增益随编码带宽的减小而增大,因为受换能器带宽限制,编码激励的轴向分辨率随编码带宽的增大先减小后趋于稳定。该研究为编码激励方法更有效地应用于超声检测的背景中提供了参考。     

Broadband flextensional transducer with major axis lengthened

The bandwidth of the Class IV flextensional transducer is narrow for its high mechanical quality factor.For improving its bandwidth performance,a flextensional transducer with major axis lengthened was proposed by the theory of multiple-mode-coupling based on the oval shell.The transducer driven by novel relaxor ferroelectric single crystal lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate(PMNT)was designed and analysed using finite element software ANSYS and a prototype of the transducer was developed.The transmitting voltage response of the transducer reaches to 136 dB with fluctuation 7.8 dB from 1.6 kHz to 16 kHz.Based on the theoretical analysis and experimental results,it proves that the flextensional transducer with major axis lengthened has a much broader bandwidth than the ClassⅣflextensional transducer combing with the advantages of low frequency and high response.