Pulsed time-of-flight laser radar module with millimeter-level accuracy using full custom receiver and TDC ASICs

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1102-1108

  Palojärvi, Pasi ^a   Määttä, Kari ^a   Kostamovaara, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Laser radar; Laser rangefinding; Time interval measurement; Time of flight (TOF)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDWIDTH; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RANGE FINDING;

LASER RANGEFINDING; MILLIMETER-LEVEL MEASUREMENT; OPTOMECHANICAL HEAD; TIME INTERVAL MEASUREMENT; TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0036825358     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.806005     Document Type: Article

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