Imaging process and signal-to-noise ratio improvement of enhanced self-heterodyne synthetic aperture imaging ladar Download: 816次
1 Key Laboratory of Space Laser Communication and Detection Technology, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800, China
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Fig. 1. Structure of the enhanced self-heterodyne SAIL system. PBS: polarizing beam splitter; WP: wave plate.
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Fig. 2. Configuration to translate the wavefront using cylindrical lenses; x means the cylindrical lenses L1 and L2 are moving in the direction orthogonal to the direction of travel, y means the cylindrical lenses L3 and L4 are moving in the travel direction.
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Fig. 3. (a) Magnitude and (b) phase distributions of the focused image in the orthogonal direction of travel and (c) a 2D image focused subsequently in the travel direction for a point target. The distribution of the final image is (d) in orthogonal direction and (e) in the travel direction for a point target.
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Fig. 4. (a), (b), and (c) are the final images for a point target at output power of 15 mW, 2 mW, and 750 μW of the optical fiber amplifier. (d), (e), and (f) are the distribution of the final image in the travel direction for a point target at the output powers of 15 mW, 2 mW, and 750 μW of the optical fiber amplifier.
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Fig. 5. Self-heterodyne receiver in the down-looking SAIL.
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Fig. 6. (a), (b), and (c) are the final images for a point target in the down-looking SAIL at the output powers of 15 mW, 2 mW, and 750 μW of the optical fiber amplifier. (d), (e), and (f) are final images in the travel direction for a point target in the down-looking SAIL at the output powers of 15 mW, 2 mW, and 750 μW of the optical fiber amplifier.
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Table1. SNR of Point Target Final Image in Enhanced Self-heterodyne SAIL System
Output power of the optical fiber amplifier | Intensity of point target | Intensity of noise | |
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15 mW | 11271 | 91 | 124 | 2 mW | 1641 | 15 | 109 | 750 μW | 364 | 6 | 61 |
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Table2. SNR of Point Target Final Image in Down-looking SAIL
Output power of the optical fiber amplifier | Intensity of point target | Intensity of noise | |
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15 mW | 375.28 | 3.87 | 97 | 2 mW | 61.59 | 2.37 | 26 | 750 μW | 15.5 | 2.46 | 6 |
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Guo Zhang, Jianfeng Sun, Yu Zhou, Zhiyong Lu, Guangyuan Li, Guangyu Cai, Mengmeng Xu, Bo Zhang, Chenzhe Lao, Hongyu He, Liren Liu. Imaging process and signal-to-noise ratio improvement of enhanced self-heterodyne synthetic aperture imaging ladar[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(10): 102801.