High Speed Optical Transmitter and Receiver Development for Lidar and Communications

Abstract

My long-term goal concerns component development for a novel hybrid lidar-radar system for underwater surveillance. Preliminary ocean experiments of the hybrid lidar-radar system have confirmed the potential of microwave-modulated pulsed lidar to be a superior detection mechanism for underwater surveillance [1]. The next step in the evolution of this novel technique is the improvement of the key components of the measurement system: high speed, large area photodetectors and microwave modulated pulsed laser sources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630365

Entities

People

  • Peter R. Herczfeld

Organizations

  • Drexel University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrays
  • Communication Systems
  • Detection
  • Frequency
  • Hybrid Lidar-Radar
  • Intensity
  • Lasers
  • Low Noise
  • Low Noise Amplifiers
  • Measurement
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Phased Arrays
  • Physical Properties
  • Radar
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Transmitters

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy