Simulation study on the laser range finder based on pseudorandom phase modulation and heterodyne detection

Author

Yang, Fu ; Zhan, Yage ; Guo, Ying ; Yang, Qinyu ; Xue, Shaolin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Donghua Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

410

Abstract

A laser range finder used the technique of heterodyne detection and pseudorandom phase modulation is proposed. The detail principle of the detection system is presented. Simulation results show that 34.6 dB signal to noise ratio can be achieved under the laser transmit power of 0.1W, pulse length of 82us, telescope aperture of 0.1m, local oscillator power of 1mW, target distance of 100m. And the system possesses 10dB advantage in system sensitivity compared with the system utilizes the pseudorandom intensity modulation combined with single photon detection.

Keywords

heterodyne detection; laser ranging; oscillators; phase modulation; sensitivity; telescopes; distance 100 m; heterodyne detection technique; laser range finder; local oscillator power; power 1 mW; pseudorandom phase modulation; signal-to-noise ratio; single photon detection; size 0.1 m; system sensitivity; telescope aperture; time 82 mus; Detectors; Frequency modulation; Lasers; Photonics; heterodyne detection; laser remote sensing; pseudorandom phase modulation; signal to noise ratio; space-borne laser altimeter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Processing (CSIP), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an, Shaanxi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1410-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSIP.2012.6308880

Filename

6308880