Radar signal design using chaotic signals

The use of chaotic signals in radar imaging applications present particular advantages as they behave like pseudo noise, have a wide band, and are easy to generate. A chaotic frequency modulated (FM) sine wave is an example of a chaotic signal that can yield higher transmitted mean power when peak-power limited transmitters are used. Unlike the random FM signal, the behavior of chaotic FM signals is not fully understood. In this paper, two approaches for analyzing the spectrum of chaotic FM signals are discussed. The first approach approximates the chaotic signal with noise and the second one, deals with the condition for the chaotic signal to remain chaotic after frequency modulation and consequently have a wide band spectrum.