Smart optical receiver for beamforming and enhancement of field of view in LADAR systems

Jed Khoury; Bahareh Haji-saeed; Charles L. Woods; John Kierstead

doi:10.1117/12.777655

17 March 2008 Smart optical receiver for beamforming and enhancement of field of view in LADAR systems

Jed Khoury, Bahareh Haji-saeed, Charles L. Woods, John Kierstead

Proceedings Volume 6974, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2008; 69740H (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777655
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We propose using the smart antenna principle as the basis of a new design for smart optical receivers in LADAR systems. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of designing a LADAR system with a receiver consisting of an array of photodetectors, which leads to field-of-view enhancement and beamforming by fusing streams of video information received from the detectors. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate this design by fusing several video information streams from different fields of view using our Mathworks Simulink® model. The fusion algorithm uses the fuzzy logic maximum operation on the data output from the cameras.

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Jed Khoury, Bahareh Haji-saeed, Charles L. Woods, and John Kierstead "Smart optical receiver for beamforming and enhancement of field of view in LADAR systems", Proc. SPIE 6974, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2008, 69740H (17 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777655

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