Effects, Estimation, and Compensation of Frequency Sweep Nonlinearity in FMCW * Ranging Systems
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Effects, Estimation, and Compensation of Frequency Sweep Nonlinearity in FMCW* Ranging Systems
Committee membersApplied Physics Prof. dr. A.P. Mosk (COPS), ir. R. Vinke (Thales), prof. dr.
W.L. Vos (COPS), ir. H.T. Griffioen (Thales)
Applied Mathematics Dr. G. Meinsma (MSCT), prof. dr. A.A. Stoorvogel (MSCT), dr. A. Zagaris (AAMP)
* Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave
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Contents• Introduction • Digital chirp generation and its effect on the
performance of a FMCW radar• Compensation of frequency sweep
nonlinearity by digital post-processing• Applications of FMCW to optics• Conclusions
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Radar• Radio Detection And Ranging• “To see and not be seen”
RAF Chain Home radar site
German U-boat surrendering (depth charge in profile)
Heinkel HE-111 bombers
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Pulsed radar
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Intercept receivers• Jamming• Direction finding (DF)• Anti-radiation missiles (ARMs)
Prowler armed with HARM high-speed anti-radiation missiles
DRS ZA-4501 shipboard DF antenna array
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LPI radar
pulse with high peak power
continuous wave with low peak power
time
power
• Low probability of intercept
Thales Smart-Lpower megaWatt
Thales Scout Mk2power milliWatt
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FMCW radar• Frequency-modulated continuous-wave
time
time
frequency
amplitude
bandwidth = 50 MHz
sweep period = 500 µs
carrier frequency = 10 GHz
chirp (𝑡 )=cos [2𝜋 ( 𝑓 𝑐𝑡+ 12𝛼𝑡 2)] , where𝛼=𝐵𝑇
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Principle of FMCW rangingtransmitted linear
chirp
received echoes
frequency difference
frequency
time
time
target ‘beat’ frequencies
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FMCW transceiver
chirp generator
spectrum analyzer
time
coupler
mixer
transmit antenna
receive antenna
target
RF
LO
IF
frequency
power
frequency
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Frequency sweep nonlinearitytransmitted non-linear
chirp
received target echoes
beat frequency
frequency
time
time
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“Ghost” targets
beat frequency
frequency
time
time
power
frequency
transmitted non-linear
chirp
received target echo
“ghost” targets
target
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Analog chirp generation• YIG (Yttrium, Iron, and Garnet)-tuned oscillator
A.G. Stove, Measurement of Spectra of Microwave FMCW Radars, Thales Aerospace UK, working paper (2006).
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Digital chirp generation• Direct digital synthesizer (DDS)
address generator
RAM or ROM
D/A converter
low-pass filter
clockto transmitter
• Clock speed 1 GSPS• Integrated 14-bit DAC
Output of a AD9910 sweeping from 180 MHz to 210 MHz
Source: J. Ledford, Master’s Thesis, University of Kansas (2008).
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Quantization of phase
0000…0
1111…1
‘jump’ size
sine look-up table (ROM)
‘phase accumulator’
Δ𝜙
Δ𝜙=2𝜋2𝑊radians
𝑊=number of bits of the phase accumulator
AD9910 synthesizer
clock
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Worst-case “ghost” target
SFDR=20 log10 (2 Δ𝜙 )≈ 92dB
• ‘Spurious-free dynamic range’
• “Ghost” targets practically negligiblepower
frequency
SFDR = 92 dB
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Compensation of phase errors
• Burgos-Garcia et al., Digital on-line compensation of errors induced by linear distortion in broadband FM radars, Electron. Lett. 39(1), 16 (2002).
• Meta et al., Range non-linearities correction in FMCW SAR, IEEE Conf. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2006, 403 (2006).
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Remember this?
time
time
intermediate frequency (IF)
frequency
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Compensation algorithm𝑓 𝑏
𝑓 𝑏
𝑓 𝑏
𝑓 𝑏
collected non-linear deramped data
transmitted non-linearties removal
range deskew
non-linearities compensation
linear deramped data
time
time
time
time
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Implementation
𝑄−𝛼( 𝑓 )𝑠𝐼𝐹 3𝑠𝐼𝐹 2
deskew filter𝑠𝐼𝐹 𝑠𝐼𝐹 4
𝑠𝜖∗ (𝑡 ) “Peek”
“Meta”
“Burgos-Garcia”
chirp (𝑡 )=cos [2𝜋 ( 𝑓 𝑐𝑡+ 12𝛼𝑡 2+𝜖 (𝑡 ))] 𝑠𝜖 (𝑡 )=exp [ 𝑗2𝜋𝜖 (𝑡 ) ]
phase error𝑄−𝛼 ( 𝑓 )=exp ( 𝑗 𝜋𝛼 𝑓 2)
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Sinusoidal phase error (low frequency)
14.94 14.96 14.98 15 15.02 15.04 15.06-80
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Range (km)
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uncompensatedcompensated (narrowband)compensated (wideband)ideal
2𝜋𝜖 (𝑡 )=𝐴𝑠𝑙 sin (2𝜋 𝑓 𝑠𝑙𝑡 ) , 𝑓 𝑠𝑙≪√𝛼
Parameter Value Unit
10 GHz
50 MHz
500 μs
15 km
0.1 Rad
4 kHz
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Sinusoidal phase error (high frequency)
14.9 14.95 15 15.05 15.1-80
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uncompensatedcompensated (narrowband)compensated (wideband)ideal
2𝜋𝜖 (𝑡 )=𝐴𝑠𝑙 sin (2𝜋 𝑓 𝑠𝑙𝑡 ) , 𝑓 𝑠𝑙 √𝛼
Parameter Value Unit
10 GHz
50 MHz
500 μs
15 km
0.1 Rad
63 kHz
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Cubic phase error2𝜋𝜖 (𝑡 )=𝑘3𝑡 3
Parameter Value Unit
10 GHz
50 MHz
500 μs
15 km
4 × 1011 Hz/s2
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Quartic phase error2𝜋𝜖 (𝑡 )=𝑘4 𝑡4
Parameter Value Unit
10 GHz
50 MHz
500 μs
15 km
4 × 1011 Hz/s2
14.94 14.96 14.98 15 15.02 15.04 15.06-80
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FCMW in optics
• Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography
• Compensation algorithm not in the literature!
3D image of a frog tadpole using a Thorlabs OCS1300SS OCT microscope system.
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Conclusions
• Phase quantization effects in digital chirp synthesizers have negligible effect on performance
• Frequency sweep nonlinearity can be compensated by digital post-processing of the beat signal
• Algorithm is also applicable to optics, but not mentioned in optics literature
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
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Effect on Doppler processing
• Systematic phase errors have negligible effect on Doppler processing
Sinusoidal phase error, 3 cycles per sweep, amplitude 0.1 radian
Sinusoidal phase error, 3.1 cycles per sweep, amplitude 0.1 radian
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Spectrum of the complex exponential
‘signal’
‘replicas’
𝜃𝑚=[0,1 ,…,7 ]
8radians
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Spectrum of the analytic signal
‘signal replica’
‘main’ signal
‘image replica’
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Observed beat signal
‘signal × image replica’
‘signal × signal replica’
‘image replica × image replica’
‘signal ×signal’