Improvement of the FMCW laser range-finder by an APD working as an optoelectronic mixer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1010-1014

  Dupuy, David ^a   Lescure, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Distance measurement; Frequency modulation; Frequency modulation continuous wave; Laser range finder; Nonlinear detection

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODIODES; RANGE FINDING;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; NONLINEAR DETECTION; OPTOELECTRONIC MIXER; PHOTORECEPTION;

RANGE FINDERS;

EID: 0036825729     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.806033     Document Type: Article

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