Remote measurement of shallow depths in semi-transparent media

Through discrimination of the scattered signal polarization state, a lidar system measures a distance through semi-transparent media by the reception of single or multiple scattered signals from a scattering medium. Combined and overlapped single or multiple scattered light signals from the medium c...

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Main Authors Crowley, Geoffrey, Hayman, Matthew, Gisler, Andrew W, Thayer, Jeffrey P, Mitchell, Steven
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 19.03.2024
Subjects
ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS
LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES
MEASURING
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS
NAVIGATION
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
PHYSICS
RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING
RADIO NAVIGATION
SURVEYING
TESTING
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Summary:Through discrimination of the scattered signal polarization state, a lidar system measures a distance through semi-transparent media by the reception of single or multiple scattered signals from a scattering medium. Combined and overlapped single or multiple scattered light signals from the medium can be separated by exploiting varying polarization characteristics. This removes the traditional laser and detector pulse width limitations that determine the system's operational bandwidth, translating relative depth measurements into the conditions of two surface timing measurements and achieving sub-pulse width resolution.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202217582966