Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 14, Issue 2, 129(2018)

Dynamic time-correlated single-photon counting laserranging

Huan PENG1... Yu-rong WANG2,*, Wen-dong MENG2, Pei-qin YAN2, Zhao-hui LI2, Chen LI1, Hai-feng PAN2 and Guang and WU2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Space Laser Information Perception Technology of CAST, Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics & Electricity, Beijing 100091, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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    We demonstrate a photon counting laser ranging experiment with a four-channel single-photon detector (SPD). The multi-channel SPD improve the counting rate more than 4×107 cps, which makes possible for the distance measurement performed even in daylight. However, the time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) technique cannot distill the signal easily while the fast moving targets are submersed in the strong background. We propose a dynamic TCSPC method for fast moving targets measurement by varying coincidence window in real time. In the experiment, we prove that targets with velocity of 5 km/s can be detected according to the method, while the echo rate is 20% with the background counts of more than 1.2×107 cps.

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    PENG Huan, WANG Yu-rong, MENG Wen-dong, YAN Pei-qin, LI Zhao-hui, LI Chen, PAN Hai-feng, and WU Guang. Dynamic time-correlated single-photon counting laserranging[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2018, 14(2): 129

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    Received: Dec. 18, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: Yu-rong WANG (yrwang152@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-018-7265-0

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