A scheme of pulse compression lidar with enhanced modulated bandwidth for detection through scattering media

• Proposing a scheme of pulse compression lidar with an ultra-wideband linear frequency modulated by using photonics devices. Both the structure description and theory analysis of the proposed scheme are made in detail in the paper.
• SNR and range resolution of the proposed scheme are numerically simulated to prove its feasibility. The simulation results indicate that an enhancement of SNR by 15.8 dB can be achieved using the scheme, and the range resolution of the scheme increases from 0.68 m to 0.0027 m. The results of numerically simulation indicate the superiority of the proposed scheme for detection through scattering media.

This paper presents a scheme of pulse compression lidar with enhanced electrical modulated bandwidth. An ultra-wideband linear frequency modulated signal with a bandwidth of 50 GHz is generated using femtosecond laser and superimposed linear chirp fiber Bragg gratings in the transmitter, which separates the echo of the target from the backward scattered noise with low modulated frequency. An optical pulse compression system based on a negative dispersion fiber Bragg grating is used to compress the ultra-wideband linear frequency modulated signal in the receiver. SNR and range resolution of the proposed scheme are numerically simulated to prove its feasibility. The simulation results indicate that an enhancement of SNR by 15.8 dB can be achieved using the scheme, and the range resolution of the scheme increases from 0.68 m to 0.0027 m. It is therefore concluded that the proposed scheme is suitable for detection through scattering media.