Resolution limits in imaging ladar systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 697-704

  Khoury, Jed ^a   Woods, Charles L ^a   Lorenzo, Joseph ^a   Kierstead, John ^b   Pyburn, Dana ^c   Sengupta, Sandip K ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LADAR SYSTEMS; QUANTUM NOISE CONSIDERATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT METHODS;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 33645032973     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000697     Document Type: Article

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