Abstract
The mismatch of in-phase and quadrature channels in quadrature receiver affects and constrains radar detection performance in colierent radar. It is necessary to keep the in-phase and quadrature branches symmetrical. In this letter, an adaptive method to detect imbalance parameters is derived by means of evaluating channel errors from the received signal sequences. No matter how the bias degree of the gain and phase errors in I/Q channels are, the proposed adaptive scheme can obtain good calibration results. And the required calculations are only a few multiplications and additions. No need of a special test signal, the introduced method is simple to implement and easy to operate.
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Yang, X., Hou, Z., Zhang, Q. et al. Adaptive calibration of I and Q mismatch in quadrature receiver. J. of Electron.(China) 19, 187–191 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-002-0034-y
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