Analysis of High-Speed Cameras as Coherent Receivers for Interferometric Sensing Applications

Abstract

Recent advances in high-speed digital cameras has enabled their use in a host of interferometric sensing applications previously restricted to photodetector based coherent receivers. In this memo, we derive expressions for the shot and digitization noise limits on the phase noise of a camera based coherent receiver. We analyze the receiver performance in both the strong-LO and equal-LO regimes and experimentally validate the analytic predictions. This analysis illustrates the advantages of camera based coherent receivers and identifies the relevant design considerations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 2019
Accession Number
AD1075388

Entities

People

  • Allen P. Davis
  • Brandon Redding
  • Matthew J Murray

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acousto-Optic Modulators
  • Attenuation
  • Cameras
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Cameras
  • Efficiency
  • Experimental Data
  • Frequency
  • High Speed Cameras
  • Holography
  • Information Operations
  • Interferometers
  • Intermediate Frequencies
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Peak Power
  • Photography
  • Power Levels
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Shot Noise
  • Standards
  • Surface Acoustic Waves

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Theoretical Analysis.