Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 12, Issue 8, 080301(2014)

Speckle reduction of synthetic aperture imaging ladar based on wavelength characteristics

Qian Xu, Zhiwei Sun, Jianfeng Sun, Yu Zhou, Zhiyong Lu, Xiaoping Ma, and Liren Liu

We propose a speckle-reduction method based on wavelength characteristics of speckle effect in synthetic aperture imaging ladar (SAIL). The return signal, which is the back scattering field with speckle effect from the rough surface of target, can be integrated over N chirp periods and heterodyne detected with a local-oscillator signal. After performing image processing respectively, the final image can be regarded as the incoherent superposition of the N sub-images. Numerical simulations indicate the effectiveness of this method. Our research may facilitate practical applications of SAIL.

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Qian Xu, Zhiwei Sun, Jianfeng Sun, Yu Zhou, Zhiyong Lu, Xiaoping Ma, Liren Liu. Speckle reduction of synthetic aperture imaging ladar based on wavelength characteristics[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(8): 080301

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Category: Coherence and statistical optics

Received: Apr. 2, 2014

Accepted: Apr. 29, 2014

Published Online: Jul. 31, 2014

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DOI:10.3788/col201412.080301

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