Wide bandwidth source for high resolution ranging

Author

Rumbaugh, Luke ; Jemison, William D. ; Li, Yifei ; Wey, Todd A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

485

Abstract

An erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a 1 km-long resonator cavity is presented as an instantaneous wideband source for high-resolution lidar and radar. This signal source has a high bandwidth and a uniform spectrum, desirable qualities for high performance correlation-based ranging. A microwave bandwidth photodetector is used to convert the optical signal to an electrical signal with 4 GHz of bandwidth, whose spectral flatness is seen to be +/- 2 dB.

Keywords

correlation methods; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; microsensors; microwave detectors; optical radar; optical sensors; photodetectors; radar resolution; ring lasers; signal sources; bandwidth 4 GHz; correlation-based ranging; distance 1 km; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; gain -2 dB; gain 2 dB; high resolution ranging; high-resolution lidar; high-resolution radar; instantaneous wide bandwidth source; microwave bandwidth photodetector; optical signal conversion; resonator cavity; signal source; Bandwidth; Distance measurement; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser radar; Optical fibers; Chaotic radar; fiber lasers; lidar; microwave photonics; noise radar; wideband signal generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2031-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340487

Filename

6340487