Range resolution improvement of phase coded lidar system utilizing detector characteristics for short codes acquirement

摘要

The conventional phase coded lidar systems require the collection of every returned laser pulse and are restricted in range resolution by sampling frequency and subpulse width. A phase coded lidar system with high range resolution is proposed with the accumulated m-sequence acquisition method by utilizing detector characteristics for signal detection. The detector accumulates kN-1 or kN+1 bits of the emitted laser sequence to deduce the a single bit of the sequence. The indoor experiment achieved 2 us resolution with the sampling period of 28 and 32 us by employing a 15-bit m-sequence. This method achieves the acquisition of m-sequence with narrow subpulse width whereas the sampling frequency is kept low. The experiment results showed an approach to implement the phase coded imaging lidar into practical application.