Title :
Experimental demonstration of differential synthetic aperture ladar
Author :
Barber, Zeb W. ; Dahl, Jason R.
Author_Institution :
Spectrum Lab., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA
Abstract :
Differential SAL measures phase slopes to reduce the inherent sensitivity to piston phase errors during the data collection process. The first experimental demonstrations of the technique and comparisons to image based phase compensation are presented.
Keywords :
image reconstruction; optical radar; data collection; differential SAL; differential synthetic aperture ladar; image based phase compensation; phase slopes; piston phase errors; Adaptive optics; Apertures; Detectors; Electronics packaging; Optical imaging; Phase measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
