Amplitude-modulated laser imager

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3874-3892

  Mullen, Linda ^a   Laux, Alan ^a   Concannon, Brian ^a   Zege, Eleonora P ^b   Katsev, Iosif L ^b   Prikhach, Alexander S ^b  

^a NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CORRELATION METHODS; DEMODULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

LASER IMAGER; MODULATED VISION SYSTEM (MVS); TURBID WATER; UNDERWATER OBJECTS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 3142577547     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003874     Document Type: Article

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