Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 12, 2025

Lensless Fluorescent Microscopy on a Chip
Published on: August 17, 2011
Photonics-assisted compressed sensing radar receiver for frequency domain non-sparse signal sampling based on
Abstract:
A photonics-assisted radar receiver based on compressed sensing (CS) technology is proposed to receive frequency domain non-sparse radar signals. The radar echo signal is mixed with a pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) in a photonic random demodulator (RD) consisting of a laser diode (LD), a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM), and a photodetector (PD). After the mixed signal from the photonic RD is undersampled by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the echo signal is reconstructed in the digital domain using an overcomplete dictionary generated by the dictionary learning algorithm and sparse reconstruction algorithm. The target range can be then obtained by correlating the reconstructed echo signal and the transmitted one. Experimental results show that the proposed system can successfully reconstruct different kinds of undersampled non-sparse radar echo signals. When the compression ratio is 20, the ranging errors do not exceed 5 cm. The system provides a promising solution for recovering undersampled frequency domain non-sparse radar signals through photonics-assisted CS.
Related Concept Videos
Aliasing
If the sampling frequency is below the Nyquist rate, these replicas overlap, preventing the original...
Upsampling
Sampling Theorem
NMR Spectrometers: Radiofrequency Pulses and Pulse Sequences
Linear Approximation in Frequency Domain
In contrast, nonlinear systems do not inherently possess these properties. However, for small deviations around an operating point, a nonlinear system can often be approximated as linear....
Sampling Methods: Overview
In analytical chemistry, the choice of...

