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Firstly, the pulse features are enriched by the modulation hypothesis mechanism to generate I\/Q complex signals from PDWs. Secondly, a multiple-parameter embedding method is proposed to expand the signal discriminative features and to enhance the identification capability of emitters. Moreover, a novel Transformer deep learning model, named PulseFormer and composed of spectral convolution, multi-layer perceptron, and self-attention based basic blocks, is proposed for discriminative feature extraction, emitter identification, and signal deinterleaving. Experimental results on synthesized PDW dataset show that the proposed method performs better on emitter signal deinterleaving in complex environments without relying on the pulse repetition interval (PRI). 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