A Novel Imaging Formation of Electromagnetic Vortex Sar with Time-Variant Orbital-Angular-Momentum

In recent years, electromagnetic vortex waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) arouse extensive attention in remote sensing imaging fields. However, most of the researches concentrate on the staring imaging mode, where the radar is motionless relative to the targets. We establish a novel system operation mode based on the principle of synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The echo model upon this novel operation mode is established and the new imaging method modified from the back-projection (BP) algorithm is deduced. Simulation and image evaluation results demonstrate the validation of the proposed method and OAM-based SAR system can be utilized in the SAR data acquisition and signal processing fields.