High Speed Optical Transmitter and Receiver Development for Lidar and Communications.

摘要

My long-term goal concerns component development for a novel hybrid lidar-radar system for underwater surveillance. Preliminary ocean experiments of the hybrid lidar-radar system have confirmed the potential of microwave-modulated pulsed lidar to be a superior detection mechanism for underwater surveillance [1]. The next step in the evolution of this novel technique is the improvement of the key components of the measurement system: high speed, large area photodetectors and microwave modulated pulsed laser sources.