Detection on micro-Doppler effect based on 1550 nm laser coherent radar

• A laser coherent detection system of 1550 nm wavelength was developed.
• The micro-Doppler effect in a dynamic target was investigated.
• The micro-Doppler signatures are extracted by applying wavelet transform.
• The vibrational features and the motion parameters are extracted by time–frequency analysis.

A laser coherent detection system of 1550 nm wavelength was presented, and experimental research on detecting micro-Doppler effect in a dynamic target was developed. In this paper, the return signal in the time domain is decomposed into a set of components in different wavelet-scales by multi-resolution analysis, and the components are associated with the vibrational motions in a target. The micro-Doppler signatures are extracted by applying the reconstruction (inverse wavelet transform). During the course of the final data processing frequency analysis and time–frequency analysis are applied to analyze the vibrational signals and estimate the motion parameters successfully. The experimental results indicate that the micro-Doppler information in a moving can be effectively detected, and tiny vibrational signatures also can be acquired effectively by wavelet multi-resolution analysis and time–frequency analysis.