Rapid and precise absolute distance measurements at long range

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 351-356

  Coddington, I ^a   Swann, W C ^a   Nenadovic, L ^a   Newbury, N R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; ABSOLUTE DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FORMATION-FLYING SATELLITES; LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; LASER RANGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CARRIERS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 67049122465     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.94     Document Type: Article

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