Compact 625-channel scannerless imaging laser radar receiver

Hoyt N. Burns; Todd D. Steiner; David R. Hayden

doi:10.1117/12.243562

26 June 1996 Compact 625-channel scannerless imaging laser radar receiver

Hoyt N. Burns, Todd D. Steiner, David R. Hayden

Proceedings Volume 2748, Laser Radar Technology and Applications; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.243562
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In 1995, under a USAF SBIR Phase I program, Burns Engineering Corporation investigated the application of new integrated photonics technologies and hybrid manufacturing processes to the miniaturization of an imaging laser radar receiver which has complete receiving and range counting circuitry for each pixel in a 25-by-25 element avalanche photodiode array. The `parallel multichannel' receiver (PMR) is a compact, robust, and modular laser radar subsystem which can produce high resolution 3D range imagery at 1 kHz frame rates without the use of a scanner. The modular PMR is attractive as a common module solution for a wide variety of high performance, low cost, autonomous laser-guided seeker applications. The system described illustrates one approach to integrating and packaging high-density photonic arrays and associated signal processing electronics to yield a high-performance imaging laser radar receiver using existing technology. Burns Engineering has been selected by the USAF to build a benchtop prototype, proof-of-concept demonstrator in a follow-on, SBIR Phase II program.

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Hoyt N. Burns, Todd D. Steiner, and David R. Hayden "Compact 625-channel scannerless imaging laser radar receiver", Proc. SPIE 2748, Laser Radar Technology and Applications, (26 June 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.243562

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