Automated Stokesmetric imaging laser radar system

Xue Liu; Shih Tseng; Renu Tripathi; Selim Shahriar

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.7.073201

5 July 2012 Automated Stokesmetric imaging laser radar system

Xue Liu, Shih Tseng, Renu Tripathi, Selim Shahriar

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 7, 073201 (July 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.7.073201

Abstract

We report the design and implementation of a high-speed, automated laser radar (ladar) system with sensitivity enhanced by a polarimetric imaging technique. This ladar is able to analyze the Stokes vector of the reflected light from a target at video-rate. With a polarization state generator and a polarization state analyzer, the system is capable of performing a complete Mueller matrix imaging of the scene under observation. This polarization-sensitive ladar (pladar) is applied to various scenes and found to yield the ability to detect information that is indiscernible to a conventional, intensity-based ladar.

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Xue Liu, Shih Tseng, Renu Tripathi, and Selim Shahriar "Automated Stokesmetric imaging laser radar system," Optical Engineering 51(7), 073201 (5 July 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.7.073201

Published: 5 July 2012

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