Abstract

A long-distance inverse synthetic aperture LADAR (ISAL) imaging experiment outdoors over 1 km for cooperative targets is demonstrated, which gets a two-dimensional high-resolution image with resolution exceeding 2.5 cm. The system utilizes an electro-optic in-phase and quadrature modulator to output a linear frequency-modulated continuous waveform (LFMCW) with a bandwidth of 6 GHz and pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 16.7 KHz. For the problem of the coherence of the laser, the effects of the coherent processing interval (CPI) and time delay of the local oscillator (LO) on the coherence are discussed. The fiber delay line is set and the CPI is reduced to lower the requirement of the frequency stability of the laser source. The images are formed by two-dimensional Fourier transform and joint time-frequency transform methods, respectively. In this paper, we present the system structure, imaging processing, and the experiment result in detail. The experiment result validates the performance of our system for ISAL imaging.

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