• DocumentCode
    2230393
  • Title

    A high resolution, chirped pulse lidar for simultaneous range and velocity measurements

  • Author

    Piracha, Mohammad Umar ; Nguyen, Dat ; Ozdur, Ibrahim ; Delfyett, Peter J.

  • Author_Institution
    CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A lidar based on the coherent detection of oppositely chirped optical pulses is used to perform range measurements with sub-millimeter resolution and simultaneous velocity measurements. A target moving at 212km/h is tracked with 20dB SNR.
  • Keywords
    Doppler measurement; chirp modulation; laser velocimetry; optical radar; optical signal detection; optical tracking; velocity measurement; chirped optical pulses; chirped pulse lidar; coherent detection; laser Doppler velocimetry; noise figure 20 dB; optical tracking; submillimeter resolution range measurement; velocity 212 km/h; velocity measurement; Chirp; Laser radar; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical pulses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950238