Impact of speckle on laser range-gated shortwave infrared imaging system target identification performance

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 738-746

  Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^a   Devitt, Nicole ^a   Halford, Carl ^b   Barnard, Kenneth J ^c  

^a NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optics performance modeling; Laser range gated imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHTING; SPECKLE;

LASER RANGE GATED IMAGING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0037354132     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1543159     Document Type: Article

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