Signal-to-noise ratio in direct-detection midinfrared Random-Modulation Continuous-Wave lidar in the presence of colored additive noise

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 386-399

  Rybaltowski, Adam ^a   Taflove, Alien ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PULSE MODULATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

COLORED ADDITIVE NOISE; PHOTON SHOT NOISE-LIMETED LIDAR; RANDOM MODULATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 3242774405     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.9.000389     Document Type: Article

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