Multihit mode direct-detection laser radar system using a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode

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In this paper, a direct-detection laser radar system that uses a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GAPD) of relatively short dead time (45 ns) is described. A passively Q-switched microchip laser is used as a laser source and a compact peripheral component interconnect system, which includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC), is set up for fast signal processing. With both the GAPD and the TDC functioning multistop acquisition, the system operates in a multihit mode. The software for the three-dimensional visualization and an algorithm for the removal of noise are developed. It is shown that the single-shot precision of the system is similar to 10 cm (sigma) and the precision is improved by increasing the number of laser pulses to be averaged so that the precision of similar to 1 cm (sigma) was acquired with more than 150 laser pulses scattered from the target. The accuracy of the system is measured to be 12 cm when the energy of the emitted laser pulse varies with a factor of 7.
Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
Issue Date
2010-03
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON

Citation

REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, v.81, no.3

ISSN
0034-6748
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/95681
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PH-Journal Papers(저널논문)EE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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