Avalanche-photodiode-based heterodyne optical head of a phase-shift laser range finder

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Castagnet, Didler ^a   Tap Béteille, Hélène ^a   Lescure, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Electronics Department

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Heterodyning; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; HETERODYNING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTODIODES; RANGE FINDERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; OPTICAL HEAD; PHASE-SHIFT LASER RANGE FINDER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33748600940     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2190229     Document Type: Article

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