Optimization of the Radar Ambiguity Function-Application to Chaotic Sequences: Invited Paper

In this paper we propose a statistical approach for the optimization of the phased codes used in radar. By considering each code as a realization of a random variable we show that we can build good codes if the distribution of the random variable is suitably chosen. We then consider sequences generated by the skew tent map and we show that for some values of the bifurcation parameter the invariant probability density coincides with the desired one. To confirm this idea we compute the maximal peak of the ambiguity function outside zero relative to the bifurcation parameter of the skew tent map.