摘要 |
A pulse expansion and compression system, especially useful for radar ranging, comprising a pulse coder for expanding an input pulse and a pulse compressor of the matched-filter type. The coder consists of a plurality of delay stages into which the input pulse is fed, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) circuit to which the output signals of the delay stages are fed, a time-dispersionmeans (TDM) comprising an arrangement of delay stages for differently delaying the output signals from the DFT, and a coherent summer for adding the real and imaginary parts of the signals from the TDM. The summer output is fed to a phase modulator and then to the transmitter. The echo signals are conjugated, time-inverted, and passed through the same DFT as the input pulse signal. The outputs of the DFT are then passed through a TDM of the same type as the first TDM, but this time in time-inverted order. The outputs of the second TDM are fed through a coherent summer and an envelope detector to provide a cross-correlated facsimile of the original input pulse.
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