Research progress on scannerless ladar systems using a laser diode transmitter and FM/cw radar principles

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4377, Issue , 2001, Pages 12-22

  Stann, Barry ^a,b   Abou Auf, Ahmed ^a,b   Frankel, Scott ^a,b   Giza, Mark ^a,b   Potter, William ^a,b   Ruff, William ^a,b   Shen, Paul ^a,b   Simon, Debbie ^a,b   Stead, Michael ^a,b   Sztankay, Zoltan ^a   Lester, Luke ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Active electro optic imaging; Ladar; Laser radar

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; METAL DETECTORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RADAR RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SCANNERLESS LADAR SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 18544374098     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.440102     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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