Smart Optical Receiver for Beamforming and Enhancement of Field ofView in LADAR Systems

摘要

We propose using the smart antenna principle as the basis of a new design for smart optical receivers in LADAR systems. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of designing a LADAR system with a receiver consisting of an array of photodetectors, which leads to field-of-view enhancement and beamforming by fusing streams of video information received from the detectors. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate this design by fusing several video information streams from different fields of view using our Mathworks Simulink~R model. The fusion algorithm uses the fuzzy logic maximum operation on the data output from the cameras.