Paper Template Radar 2017

A novel waveform optimization metric is proposed that encapsulates both the continuous-time nature of a frequencymodulated (FM) waveform and the discrete-time nature of the pulse compression receive filter. A continuous-time waveform model is used whose phase function is defined as a weighted sum of Legendre polynomials, thus parameterizing the continuous-time waveform with a discrete set of coefficients. Leveraging a novel correlation function that captures receiver range straddling effects, a q-norm integrated sidelobe metric is minimized using the gradient with respect to the discrete waveform parameters within a quasi-Newton formulation.