Coherent laser radar system and target measurement method

摘要

A coherent laser radar system includes a pulsed laser (1) oscillating a pulsed laser beam which is split into two parts by an optical divider (2). A first part of the two is transmitted as a transmitted beam via a beam splitter (3). A second part is supplied to a delay line (11) via a coupling optics (9) and others to be delayed by a predetermined time as a local beam, and is incident onto an optical coupler (8). The received beam from the target is incident onto the optical coupler (8) via a scanning optics (6) and so on. A photodetector (12) carries out the coherent detection of the light beam coupled by the optical coupler (8). A signal processor (14) computes a target velocity and the like from a signal generated by the detection and converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter (13). This makes it possible to solve a problem of a conventional system in that the system configuration is complicated and expensive.