Bridger Photonics has been researching and developing a ladar system based on heterodyne detection for imaging through brownout and other DVEs. There are several advantages that an FMCW ladar system provides compared to direct detect pulsed time-of-flight systems including: 1) Higher average powers, 2) Single photon sensitive while remaining tolerant to strong return signals, 3) Doppler sensitivity for clutter removal, and 4) More flexible system for sensing during various stages of flight. In this paper, we provide a review of our sensor, discuss lessons learned during various DVE tests, and show our latest 3D imagery.
Imaging through obscurants with a heterodyne detection-based ladar system
Degraded Visual Environments: Enhanced, Synthetic, and External Vision Solutions 2014 ; 2014 ; Baltimore,Maryland,USA
Proc. SPIE ; 9087
2014-06-19
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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