Acquisition algorithm for direct-detection ladars with Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 296-311

  Milstein, Adam B ^a   Jiang, Leaf A ^a   Luu, Jane X ^a   Hines, Eric L ^a   Schultz, Kenneth I ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FALSE ALARM RATE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 40749094492     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000296     Document Type: Article

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