Optics: measuring and testing – Range or remote distance finding – With photodetection
Patent
1979-09-25
1981-11-03
Buczinski, S. C.
Optics: measuring and testing
Range or remote distance finding
With photodetection
250332, 250334, 250341, 250342, 356 285, 358105, 358109, 358113, G01C 308, G01P 336, H01J 3149
Patent
active
042982804
ABSTRACT:
An infrared radar system. The system includes an infrared laser and associated controller which are adapted to provide a succession of transmit pulses having a relatively high intensity spike portion followed by a relatively low intensity quasi-CW portion. An optical system directs the transmit pulses to a target scene and collects infrared radiation reflected from the scene. The collected radiation is imaged on a heterodyne detector array together with a locally generated reference infrared beam. A range network is responsive to signals from the detector array to provide signals representative of the range of objects in the target scene. A moving target indicator network is responsive to signals from the detector to provide signals representative of the velocity of objects in the target scene.
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Buczinski S. C.
Lappin Mark G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Smith, Jr. Arthur A.
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