Photon counting chirped amplitude modulation lidar using an asymmetric triangular wave modulation

Zijing Zhang; Longzhu Cen; Jiandong Zhang; Kun Ma; Feng Wang; Yuan Zhao

doi:10.1117/12.2249728

7 November 2016 Photon counting chirped amplitude modulation lidar using an asymmetric triangular wave modulation

Zijing Zhang, Longzhu Cen, Jiandong Zhang, Kun Ma, Feng Wang, Yuan Zhao

Proceedings Volume 10141, Selected Papers of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Conferences held July 2016; 101410V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249728
Event: Selected Proceedings of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Conferences held July 2016, 2016, Changchun, China

Abstract

We propose a novel strategy of asymmetric triangular-wave modulation for photon-counting chirped amplitude modulation (PCCAM) lidar. Earlier studies use the symmetric triangle wave modulation, by which the velocity can be detected only when the Doppler shift caused by a moving target is greater than Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) of Intermediate Frequency (IF). We use an alternative method known as the asymmetric triangular wave modulation method, in which the modulation rates of the up-ramp and the down-ramp are different. This new method avoids the overlapping of the up-ramp and the down-ramp IF peaks, and breaks the limit of the FWHM of IF peak to improve the velocity measuring sensitivity (also called the minimum detectable velocity). Finally, a proof-of-principle experiment is carried out in the laboratory. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical results and show the improvement of the minimum detectable velocity.

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Zijing Zhang, Longzhu Cen, Jiandong Zhang, Kun Ma, Feng Wang, and Yuan Zhao "Photon counting chirped amplitude modulation lidar using an asymmetric triangular wave modulation", Proc. SPIE 10141, Selected Papers of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Conferences held July 2016, 101410V (7 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249728

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Modulation

LIDAR

Target detection

Signal detection

Doppler effect

Amplitude modulation

Photon counting

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