Title :
Detection Statistics for a Pulsed Laser Radar
Abstract :
Photocount distributions for a narrow-band laser receiver in thermal background radiation are developed in a parallel sense to the envelope density functions for radio frequency radar. While classical detection performance is dependent on the received signal-to-noise, the results show that narrow-band photocount detection additionally depends on the absolute levels of the received signal and noise.
Keywords :
Density functional theory; Laser noise; Laser radar; Narrowband; Optical pulses; Radar detection; Radio frequency; Receivers; Statistical distributions; Statistics;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.1971.310226
