On the Design of Transceiver for Range Sidelobe Reduction with Expanded Mainlobe

This paper deals with the joint synthesis of transmit waveforms and receive filters that achieve low range sidelobe level with expanded mainlobe. The lp norm of the matching error of correlation function template is minimized with peak-average-power ratio (PAPR) and signal-noise ratio (SNR) restrictions. To tackle the resulting nonconvex and NP-hard optimization problem, a fast iterative technique with guaranteed convergence is proposed. Numerical simulations highlight that our proposal can outperform some counterparts providing the low sidelobe level.