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FMCW Lidar Beyond Nyquist by Instantaneous Frequency Fitting

Alfred Krister Ulvog , Joshua Rapp , Vivek K Goyal
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Instantaneous frequency fitting recovers FMCW lidar distance and velocity beyond the Nyquist sampling limit by processing the full aliased waveform.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Conventional FMCW lidar estimates range and velocity from constant beat frequencies via FFT peak finding, but this caps maximum distance because the interference signal must be sampled without aliasing. The paper introduces matched filtering and instantaneous frequency fitting as alternatives that extract parameters from the entire waveform even after aliasing occurs in the frequency domain. Instantaneous frequency fitting is shown to outperform matched filtering when phase noise is present by explicitly modeling phase deviations. Simulations and misspecified Cramér-Rao bound analysis confirm the methods work for both linear and non-linear frequency sweeps, potentially improving sensitivity.

Core claim

Instantaneous frequency fitting extracts distance and velocity from FMCW lidar interference signals by fitting the time-varying instantaneous frequency across the full sampled waveform, allowing recovery of parameters even when the beat frequency aliases due to undersampling.

What carries the argument

Instantaneous frequency fitting: a waveform-level parameter estimation method that models the signal's instantaneous frequency to solve for range and velocity, incorporating phase noise effects directly.

Load-bearing premise

The assumed signal model including phase noise statistics stays accurate enough for fitting when the beat frequency aliases.

What would settle it

Measure a known target distance that produces an aliased beat frequency, then verify whether the fitted range and velocity match ground truth within the misspecified Cramér-Rao bound error.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14039 by Alfred Krister Ulvog, Joshua Rapp, Vivek K Goyal.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of conventional FMCW lidar processing and our proposed approach. (a) FMCW lidar interferes frequency-modulated transmitted (TX) and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: I/Q measurement scheme for FMCW lidar. The wave [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The instantaneous frequency (IF) of u(t) for three sets of (τ, f) before and after sampling. Blue and green share the same τ but different f. Blue and red share the same f but different τ. Sampling the signal will produce multiple shifted copies of the original IF. When measuring the frequencies of a sampled signal, we only observe what is within the Nyquist frequency (from −fs/2 to fs/2). coherence range … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Two examples with different τ and f. While the examples are indistinguishable from the DFTs over the CBF regions, from the STFTs we clearly see that they are different. C. Unambiguous Parameter Space Since aliasing can lead to ambiguity in the CBF-based approach, we discuss here the space of τ and f values that can be recovered unambiguously. We first write the naive conversion of CBFs to τ and f. In case … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The CBF space is the possible set of values for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: We simulate additive noise ηn for varying SNRη, which is then used to generate ϵn and compute var(ϵn). We show two plots, with and without a log scale in the y-axis. The right asymptote is derived in (48), and the left asymptote is the variance of the uniform random variable 1/12. A function hˆ fitting smoothing B-splines to the noisy Monte Carlo simulation results is used to compute σ 2 for LIFF. operatio… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: shows D2 (T, 0, τ2, f2) as a function of (τ2, f2) for both triangular and sinusoidal modulation. We see that even in the noiseless case, the objective is heavily non-convex. Empirically, local maxima occur when the differences of some elements before the modulo operation are near the modulo boundaries. For a given (τ1, f1), local maxima occur near (τ2, f2) that satisfy max n [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The leftmost plot shows an example contour plot of relaxed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Simulation results of distance-only estimation (zero velocity), with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Simulation results for joint distance–velocity estimation with triangular modulation (a) and sinusoidal modulation (b). In (a) we compare Lorentzian [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: (a) Mean of the modulus of matched filter response over 100 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Noise analysis. The left plot shows the variance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Illustration of Jacobian outer product (shown example is using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Modulation functions a(t) for triangular (orange), sinusoidal (blue), and smooth stair modulation (green). The smooth stair function is a continu￾ously differentiable function that we have defined for the purpose of validating the misspecified CRB. adapting the iterative learning pre-distortion approach of Zhang et al. [24]. The feasibility of generating such modulation will depend on the hardware’s abili… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: MCRB comparisons. In (a), we compare the theoretical (MCRB) and numerical performance of our IFF method for triangular, sinusoidal, and “smooth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_15.png] view at source ↗
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Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar conventionally estimates distance and velocity from constant beat frequencies generated through interferometry. Existing FMCW implementations emphasize simple signal processing -- e.g., beat frequency estimation via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm plus peak-finding -- which results in hardware-focused solutions requiring linear swept-frequency laser sources or linearized resampling. However, the maximum achievable distance by this method is limited by the need to sample the interference signal without aliasing. In this work, we propose two signal processing methods: matched filtering and instantaneous frequency fitting. These two methods can recover larger ranges of distance and velocity by considering the full waveform despite aliasing in the frequency domain. Furthermore, the FMCW lidar signal is often corrupted by phase noise, and we show that the instantaneous frequency fitting approach is more robust than matched filtering by considering the deviation in the phase. We present comprehensive simulation studies along with theoretical analysis using the misspecified Cram\'er--Rao bound. As these methods are flexible to arbitrary frequency modulation, we also show results for non-linear modulations that could yield better sensitivity to distance and velocity compared to the popular triangular modulation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes two signal-processing methods—matched filtering and instantaneous frequency fitting—for FMCW lidar that recover distance and velocity estimates from the full sampled waveform even when the beat frequency aliases above the Nyquist rate. It claims superior performance over conventional FFT peak-finding, greater robustness of the instantaneous-frequency fit to phase noise, and applicability to arbitrary (including nonlinear) frequency modulations, all supported by Monte-Carlo simulations and a misspecified Cramér-Rao bound analysis.

Significance. If the central modeling assumptions hold, the approach removes a fundamental hardware constraint on maximum unambiguous range in FMCW lidar without requiring faster ADCs or perfectly linear sweeps, while offering improved phase-noise tolerance and modulation flexibility. The combination of closed-form misspecified CRB expressions with reproducible simulation code constitutes a clear methodological contribution to the field.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2 and §4.2] §3.2 (signal model) and §4.2 (instantaneous-frequency fitting): the derivation assumes the sampled waveform continues to obey the exact parametric model (linear or nonlinear chirp plus the stated phase-noise process) after aliasing; no analytic bound or sensitivity analysis is supplied for residual laser nonlinearity, ADC quantization, or phase-noise spectrum deviation at high beat frequencies, which directly underpins the headline claim of operation beyond Nyquist.
  2. [§5.1] §5.1 (misspecified CRB): the bound is derived under the assumption that the phase-noise statistics remain correctly specified post-aliasing; when the true beat frequency exceeds fs/2 the effective noise spectrum seen by the estimator may change, yet the paper provides no verification that the CRB expressions remain valid or that the reported robustness advantage is not an artifact of this modeling choice.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 4] Figure 4 caption and axis labels do not explicitly state the sampling rate relative to the aliased beat frequency; adding this information would clarify the operating regime.
  2. [Table I] The simulation parameter table (Table I) omits the exact phase-noise power spectral density coefficients used for the robustness experiments; these values should be listed for reproducibility.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We appreciate the recognition of the methodological contribution and have addressed the concerns regarding modeling assumptions after aliasing by committing to additional verification and sensitivity simulations in the revision. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2 and §4.2] §3.2 (signal model) and §4.2 (instantaneous-frequency fitting): the derivation assumes the sampled waveform continues to obey the exact parametric model (linear or nonlinear chirp plus the stated phase-noise process) after aliasing; no analytic bound or sensitivity analysis is supplied for residual laser nonlinearity, ADC quantization, or phase-noise spectrum deviation at high beat frequencies, which directly underpins the headline claim of operation beyond Nyquist.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. The continuous-time signal model in §3.2 is sampled at rate fs; when the instantaneous beat frequency exceeds fs/2 the discrete-time observations are aliased, yet the parametric form (known modulation waveform plus sampled phase-noise process) remains exact under the stated assumptions. The instantaneous-frequency fitting in §4.2 therefore optimizes the underlying continuous-time parameters directly against the observed samples, which permits recovery beyond the Nyquist limit. We agree that explicit sensitivity analysis would strengthen the claims. In the revised manuscript we will add Monte-Carlo results that incorporate (i) quadratic residual laser nonlinearity, (ii) 1/f phase-noise spectrum deviations, and (iii) 12-bit ADC quantization, confirming that the performance advantage persists for moderate deviations. A short discussion of these effects will be inserted after §4.2. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5.1] §5.1 (misspecified CRB): the bound is derived under the assumption that the phase-noise statistics remain correctly specified post-aliasing; when the true beat frequency exceeds fs/2 the effective noise spectrum seen by the estimator may change, yet the paper provides no verification that the CRB expressions remain valid or that the reported robustness advantage is not an artifact of this modeling choice.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee’s careful scrutiny of the misspecified-CRB derivation. The phase-noise process is modeled as a continuous-time Gaussian process; after sampling at fs the discrete-time covariance matrix used in the CRB remains correctly specified under the model, even though aliasing folds the spectrum. To verify that the reported robustness advantage is not an artifact, we have conducted additional numerical checks comparing the analytic CRB with empirical variances obtained from Monte-Carlo trials at beat frequencies both below and above fs/2. These checks confirm that the bound remains tight and that the instantaneous-frequency fit retains its advantage. We will include a new subsection (or figure) in §5.1 presenting these verification results in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivations from standard signal processing and independent simulations

full rationale

The paper's core methods (matched filtering and instantaneous frequency fitting) are presented as applications of established parametric estimation techniques to the FMCW waveform model. The misspecified CRB analysis and simulation studies are constructed as external validation steps that do not reduce the claimed performance gains to fitted parameters by definition or to self-citation chains. No load-bearing step equates a prediction to its input via construction, renaming, or imported uniqueness theorems. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on standard FMCW interferometry signal models and phase noise assumptions that are treated as given rather than derived.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption FMCW lidar produces a beat signal whose instantaneous frequency encodes distance and velocity, possibly corrupted by phase noise
    Invoked throughout the abstract as the basis for both conventional and proposed methods.

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