Abstract

In this manuscript, we propose a digital coherent detection method to surpass the limitation of a coherent length on the detection range of a coherent lidar. This method rapidly reconstructs the laser phase noise utilizing the multi-channel delay self-homodyne and the generalized inverse of the system observation matrix. Subsequently, the reconstructed phase noise is utilized to expunge its perturbation onto the target information in the digital domain, thereby effectively surmounting the coherence length limitation. Through experimentation, the proposed method is verified to produce stable and high-quality interference even when the optical path difference between two beams exceeds 1000 times the coherence length. Additionally, the equivalent laser linewidth is compressed by 10⁵ times.

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