… Surfaces with high reflectivity in the backward direction (toward the ladar receiver) have
higher cross section. Corner cubes have a lot higher cross section, because light reflected from …

… and the receiver response field in the receiver aperture. For coherent detection the receiver
… BPLO) while for direct detection the receiver response field is the responsivity weighted back …

… -pixel range receiver for applications of control and guidance by an active LADAR system. …
of the 1 0 nsec wide receiver pulse coming from the optical receiver. In order to get an idea of …

… The optical receiver used for 532 nm measurements is a single element silicon avalanche
photodiode located at a lens focal plane to record far-field signatures. This configuration uses …

… , receiver, operational, and performance options. This modeling was based on an existing
ladar transceiver with a 8-nS FWHM Nd:YAG pumped optical … , and a 10-cm receiver aperture. …

… receiver system can be evaluated. If these values are then held constant in each design,
the various receiver … As a baseline, consider a direct-detection ladar receiver with only an IR …

… an overview of advanced LADAR receiver technology at … (non-gated) flash receivers and
small format linear mode photon … -time 3D imaging LADAR receiver products in both scanning …

… We describe the airborne optical systems testbed ladar system, … that can support advanced
imaging applications. … , the receiver only requires slight adjustments to the optical assembly to …

… Lasers are available for this LADAR application in the near infrared where the optical … be
the practical minimum using this LADAR concept. Optical receivers with gain in this wavelength …

… Most of the commercially available analog LADAR receivers have been realized by hybrid …
LADAR system, shown in Fig. 1, consists of a laser transmitter module and an optical receiver …