A Photonics-aided MMW OFDM Joint Radar and Communication System with Velocity Accuracy Improvement

Abstract

Photonics-aided millimeter wave (MMW) Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is a novel approach to realize the joint radar and communication system. The phase noise introduced by the laser will degrade the system performance. In this paper, we analyze the mechanism of phase noise acting on OFDM radar system. A method that combines chirp-Z transform (CZT) and compensation enabled by a reference signal is adopted to improve the velocity accuracy. RF pilot (RFP) and blind phase search (BPS) algorithm are adopted to improve communication performance. A simulation is demonstrated at 30 GHz with 2 GHz communication bandwidth. A twodimensional radar imaging with a range resolution of 0.075 m and velocity resolution of 0.980 m/s and a communication capacity of 6.4 Gbps are obtained in the proposed joint radar and communication system.