Timing modulation of a 40–mhz laser–pulse train for target ranging and identification

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7191-7196

  Peterson, Rita D ^a   Schepler, Kenneth L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; Q SWITCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL DETECTORS; TARGET RANGING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0346307421     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007191     Document Type: Article

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