Optical antenna of telescope for synthetic aperture ladar

Liren Liu

doi:10.1117/12.793980

26 August 2008 Optical antenna of telescope for synthetic aperture ladar

Liren Liu

Proceedings Volume 7094, Unconventional Imaging IV; 70940F (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.793980
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

For synthetic aperture ladar (SAL) imaging, there are difficulties in the space domain because the size of optical antenna of telescope is up to six orders of magnitude larger than the wavelength. In this paper, we suggest a defocused and spatial phase masked telescope for reception to compensate the diffraction aberration from the target to match the directivity of heterodyne detection, a defocused and phase masked transmission telescope to send out a wavefront with an additional and controllable spatial quadratic phase to the phase history, and a circulated duplex to compensate the aberration for reception and to produce spatial phase bias for transmission concurrently in the same telescope. On this basis, the point target radar equation in a full space and time treatment is achieved. Correspondingly, the complete collection equations of 2-D data acquired in the range and azimuth directions for 2-D SAL imaging of the strip-map mode and the spotlight mode are developed. Then the imaging azimuth and range resolutions are redefined in terms of the idea of optical imaging by a lens, and the requirement for azimuth sampling is given. The paper systemically presents the all details.

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Liren Liu "Optical antenna of telescope for synthetic aperture ladar", Proc. SPIE 7094, Unconventional Imaging IV, 70940F (26 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.793980

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