Interference caused by passive intermodulation (PIM) has seriously affected system performance. Compressed sensing (CS) can be used to locate radial PIMs. In CS-based electromagnetic imaging methods, the ability to locate the number of targets is usually limited by the number of receiving antennas, and there are flooding problems in the imaging results. To solve these problems, traditional methods are used to increase the number of receiving antennas. To reduce the number of receiving antennas and improve the imaging effect, this paper proposes a virtual array expansion synchronous imaging compressed sensing (SI-CS) method. With the full-wave electromagnetic simulation demonstrations, the proposed method exhibits significant improvement in imaging performance compared to the conventional methods. In addition, the proposed method can discriminate between targets in the presence of the flooding problem in which the paraflap is too large and the location of the PIM source cannot be determined by the amplitude value.
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