This paper investigates a new class of pulse compression codes in which the phase rotates clockwise, and afterward, rotates anticlockwise (or rotates anticlockwise, and afterward, rotates clockwise). The spectrum energy then concentrates to the narrower band compared to the conventional code such as the Barker code and the pulse is compressed not to the width of a single subpulses, but to the width made by a collection of several subpulses. It is revealed that, using the new code, PSL (Peak Sidelobe Level) can be reduced to -25.6 dB (1/19) -25.1 dB (1/18), which is much smaller than using the Barker code and Frank code, when the compression ratio is about 10 or larger. Furthermore, the signal-to-noise ratio after compression, the appropriate IF bandwidth and Doppler tolerance for the new code are estimated by simulation.

A multi-range resolution radar using sideband spectrum energy is investigated. The basic system consists of a sharpening processor and least-error energy shaping filters. First, the sharpening processor makes long flat pulses sharpened. Next, the least-error shaping filters compress the input pulse into the desired pulse width. Then the output pulse width can become narrower than the reciprocal of the input bandwidth, because the least-error shaping filters make the equivalent bandwidth expanded by the enhancement of the sideband spectrum energy and the suppression of the main spectrum. The transmitted signals with simple phase modulation are studied to obtain the multi-range resolution where the pulse is compressed into a pulse with the same bandwidth and another pulse width equal to the reciprocal of the input bandwidth. The peak-to-sidelobe ratio after the pulse compression and the improvement factor of the output signal-to-noise ratio are measured. Further, the experimental results are shown to verify our proposed technique.