Design of Wideband FMCW Radar Transceiver System Using Photonic Elements

Abstract

This paper proposes a FMCW radar transceiver with photonic elements. The proposed radar system is efficiently designed by budget analysis, and a wideband signal is generated using photonic elements. To verify the performance of the proposed radar system, field tests including changes in bandwidth are conducted. The results confirm that the resolution of ISAR images improves as the bandwidth increases as expected through the budget analysis.

Keywords

• microwave photonics
• radar transceiver system
• photonic based radar