This paper describes the design, calibration and performance of a Cpl coherent laser radar
testbed. For calibration purposes, a very precise movable target, resembling the travelling …

The design, calibration and performance of a CW coherent laser radar testbed system is
described. Detector responsiveness and detector noise in a heterodyne system is …

The first laser range finder (1961) used direct detection and since then a great number of
direct detection system have become operational. Work on coherent laser radars began …

Over the past 25 years many coherent laser radar systems have been developed and
applied to a variety of problems, including military systems to image solid objects and map …

A coherent imaging CO_2 laser radar has been built and field tested. It collects reflectance
and range images from amplitude and phase measurements. Statistical analysis indicates …

Coherent laser radars offer new technical options for a variety of target detection and
imaging scenarios. Such systems will, of necessity, be subject to the vagaries of atmospheric …

The experimental Infrared Ranging and Tracking System (IRATE) described herein has
been developed for evaluating the capabilities of TEA-0O2 laser radars with heterodyne …

The SNR equation of a CW, monostatic, coherent laser radar system is examined for the
case of a distributed aerosol target. General analytic equations are derived which explicitly …

A theoretical study of the use of a heterodyne reception CO2 laser radar for imaging and
target detection is reported. Specifically, a mathematical system model for the radar is …

Experimentally verified signal amplitude distributions from a coherent CO_2 laser radar
have been used to derive radar performance for atmospheric remote sensing and hard …