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An eye-safe coherent lidar for speed measurement

  • Zongfeng Ma*
  • , Chunxi Zhang
  • , Pan Ou
  • , Guangming Luo
  • , Jiqiang Wang
  • , Tian Lan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

An eye-safe, coherent Doppler Light Detection and Ranging (CDL) system for speed measurement under development at BUAA's School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering is introduced in this paper. It consists of a 1.55-μm Er-doped fiber laser transmitter, a monostatic optical antenna, a single-mode fiber (SMF) interferometer, an InGaAs photodiode detector, and signal processing equipments. All devices of optical circuit are connected by SMFs making the system reliable and setup arrangement flexible. The goal is to give the evaluations of the Doppler frequency shift and platform speed. Since the speed accuracy is time-independent, the CDL system can be used for integrated navigation system. The quality of Doppler-shift estimation by a spectrum analysis technique, fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms, ameliorates as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increases. For the developed CDL system incorporating with SMF interferometer, only the light beam of mode LP01 is permitted to propagate, therefore the SNR is improved greatly. Experiments were performed on a moving hard target with the CDL system and the results were presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2007 - Laser, Ultraviolet, and Terahertz Technology
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventInternational Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2007 - Laser, Ultraviolet, and Terahertz Technology - Beijing, China
Duration: 9 Sep 200712 Sep 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6622
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2007 - Laser, Ultraviolet, and Terahertz Technology
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period9/09/0712/09/07

Keywords

  • Coherent doppler lidar
  • Fast Fourier transform
  • Integrated navigation system
  • Multi-sensor

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