Title :
Time-of-flight measurement using femtosecond pulses
Author :
Lee, JooHyung ; Kim, Young-Jin ; Kim, Seung-Woo
Author_Institution :
Ultrafast Opt. for Ultraprecision Group, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol. KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We exploit femtosecond pulses for time-of-flight measurement of distances. Not only long distances but also short distances less than 10 m are measured with sub-micrometer precision beyond the traditional limit of time-of-flight measurement.
Keywords :
laser ranging; optical pulse generation; femtosecond pulses; short distances; time-of-flight measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
