Design and Implementation of Wideband Exciter for an Ultra-high Resolution Airborne SAR System

We designed and implemented a wideband Linear Frequency Modulated (LFM) pulse compression exciter with 14.8 GHz carrier and 3.2 GHz bandwidth based on an ultra-high resolution airborne SAR system with a better than 0.1 m resolution. The selection of a signal generation scheme and some key technique points for wideband LFM waveform are presented in detail. Then, an acute test and analysis of the LFM signal are performed. The final airborne experiments demonstrate the validity of the LFM source, which is one of the subsystems in an ultra-high resolution airborne SAR system.