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By extending the frequency domain wideband synthesis method to the NLFM waveform, the synthetic bandwidth will be limited, and the grating lobe will grow as the number of subpulses increases at a fixed synthetic bandwidth. Aiming for the highly periodic grating lobes caused by equally spaced splicing and small subpulse time-bandwidth products (TxBW), a multisubpulse UWB NLFM waveform synthesis method is proposed in this paper. Random frequency hopping and spectral correction are utilized to disperse the energy of periodic grating lobes and optimize the matched filter of the subpulse, thereby reducing notches and Fresnel ripples in the synthesized spectrum. The results of the hardware-in-the-loop simulation experiment show that the peak sidelobe ratio (PSLR) and the integral sidelobe ratio (ISLR) of the NLFM synthetic wideband waveform (SWW) obtained by 50 subpulses with a bandwidth of 36 MHz are improved by 4.8 dBs and 4.5 dBs, respectively, when compared to the frequency domain wideband synthesis method, and that the grating lobe is suppressed by an average of 10.6 dBs. 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