Frequency-modulated continuous-wave laser radar using dual vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes for real-time measurements of distance and radial velocity

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• 作者：Seiichi Kakuma
• 关键词：VCSEL ; FMCW ; Laser radar ; Distance measurement ; Velocity measurement
• 刊名：Optical Review
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：24
• 期：1
• 页码：39-46
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics; Quantum Optics; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1349-9432
• 卷排序：24

文摘

A frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser radar capable of real-time displaying the distance to a target object and its radial velocity as their corresponding frequency spectra is developed. The system employs a pair of oppositely frequency-swept vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSELs). This makes possible simultaneous detection of beat signals induced by the increment (up-ramp) and decrement (down-ramp) in laser frequencies. By mixing these two beat signals, their sum and difference frequencies are directly obtained without arithmetic processing such as averaging and subtraction. Results of the test experiments adopting axially moving block gauges as target objects show that both the distance and given velocities are accurately determined from the spectrum of the frequency mixer.