Range-Doppler Sidelobe Suppression for Pulsed Radar Based on Golay Complementary Codes

To relieve the interference caused by range-Doppler sidelobes in pulsed radars, we propose a new method to construct Doppler resilient complementary waveforms based on Golay codes. We design both the transmit pulse train and the receive pulse weights, so that the similarity between the pulse weights and a given window function is maximized and the constraints on Doppler null points and energy are met. That is summarized as a two-way partitioning problem, and then solved by semidefinite programming and randomization techniques. The novel waveform thus obtained has its range sidelobe outright suppressed in multiple and flexibly-adjustable Doppler zones, and performs well in Doppler sidelobe suppression, Doppler resolution and SNR. It shows great promise in detecting slightly-moving weak targets with the existence of dense interference.