Short-range verification experiment of a trial one-dimensional synthetic aperture infrared laser radar operated in the 10-μm band

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1421-1425

  Yoshikado, Shin ^a   Aruga, Tadashi ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETERODYNING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PHASE ERRORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000659597     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001421     Document Type: Article

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