Method and arrangement for compensating for frequency jitter in a laser radar system by utilizing double-sideband chirped modulator/demodulator system
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Jun 3, 2003
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Sep 18, 1991
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A frequency jitter compensation radar system which frequency modulates a transmitter laser beam with simultaneously generated up- and down-chirped frequency modulated signals. The frequency modulated transmitter beam is used to scan a target and a reflected light beam is received for each pixel location of a radar system. The reflected light beam is heterodyned with a local oscillator laser beam and upon detection two separate electrical signal channels are provided representing tb up- and down-chirped frequency modulated signals. These up- and down-chirped signal channels are compressed and are further processed as the return signals of a radar system as by averaging the peak detection measurement from the two channels for each pixel to provide frequency jitter compensation commonly resulting from speckle from a target. Electro-optic or acoustic-optic arrangements may be used to frequency modulate the transmitter laser beam. Surface acoustic wave filters may be used for demodulation of the received signal channels. A method of implementing frequency jitter compensation for a radar system is disclosed.
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