Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 52, Issue 7, 0710001(2025)

Multichannel Polarization Diversity Imaging LiDAR

Longkun Zhang1,2, Jianfeng Sun2,3、*, Haisheng Cong2, Xingsheng Liu4, Qian Xu2,3, Zhiyong Lu2, and Weibiao Chen1,2、**
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  • 1Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Space Laser Communication and Detection Technology, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3Shanghai Key Laboratory of Satellite Network, Shanghai 200120, China
  • 4School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
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    Experimental setup and schematic diagram of multi-channel polarization diversity imaging LiDAR
    Parameter diagrams of LiDAR device. (a) Slow axis direction of the transmitted and received MPOs, as well as the corresponding relationships among the final point cloud channels I‒VI; (b) schematic diagram of Risley-prism multi-beam scanning; (c) multi-beam scanning pattern with the prism rotation speed ratio of 1.01; (d) FMCW measurement principle using triangular frequency modulation
    Examples of point cloud filtering in channel II. (a) Raw intensity point cloud; (b)‒(e) filtered point clouds using only DGF, DGF+SIF, DGF+SIF+SVF, and DGF+SIF+SVF+SOF
    Polarization intensity reflection point cloud
    Point cloud of the Mueller matrix (all elements are normalized by M11)
    Classification and extraction of the point cloud. (a) Point cloud of m22; (b) point cloud of m22=1; (c) point cloud of m22=0
    Mueller matrix parameter point cloud. (a) Point cloud of the linear diattenuation DL; (b) extraction of the point cloud with DL=1
    Real target scene and other buildings point clouds. (a) Real target scene of buildings A6 and A7 (taken on rainy weather); (b) classification and extraction of the m22 point cloud for buildings A8, A9, and A11
    • Table 1. Relationships among point cloud channels I‒VI

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      Table 1. Relationships among point cloud channels I‒VI

      Point cloud channelTransmitted channel of MPO-1Received channel of MPO-2Dual-polarization states
      I11HH
      II11HV
      III22VH
      IV22VV
      V33PH
      VI33PV
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    Longkun Zhang, Jianfeng Sun, Haisheng Cong, Xingsheng Liu, Qian Xu, Zhiyong Lu, Weibiao Chen. Multichannel Polarization Diversity Imaging LiDAR[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2025, 52(7): 0710001

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    Paper Information

    Category: remote sensing and sensor

    Received: Sep. 4, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 3, 2024

    Published Online: Apr. 10, 2025

    The Author Email: Jianfeng Sun (sunjianfengs@163.com), Weibiao Chen (wbchen@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL241184

    CSTR:32183.14.CJL241184

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