Bistatic coherent laser radar signal–to–noise ratio

Eric P. Magee; Timothy J. Kane

doi:10.1364/AO.41.001768

Bistatic coherent laser radar signal–to–noise ratio

Eric P. Magee, Timothy J. Kane

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We investigate the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) for a bistatic coherent laser radar (CLR) system. With a bistatic configuration, the spatial resolution is determined by the overlap of the transmit beam and the virtual backpropagated local oscillator beam. This eliminates the trade-off between range resolution and the bandwidth of the transmitted pulse inherent in monostatic systems. The presented analysis is completely general in that the expressions can be applied to both monostatic and bistatic CLR systems. The heterodyne SNR is computed under the assumption of untruncated Gaussian optics and untruncated Gaussian beam profiles. The analysis also includes the effects of refractive turbulence. The results show that, for maximum SNR, small transmit and local oscillator beam profiles (e^-1intensity radius) are desired.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1768-1779
Number of pages	12
Journal	Applied optics
Volume	41
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.41.001768
State	Published - Mar 20 2002

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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