Short-range energy budget simulator of single photon lidar demonstrator

Mark V. Murtazin; Ivan Prochazka; Josef Blazej; Sergey M. Pershin; Vasily N. Lednev

doi:10.1117/12.2265787

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15 May 2017 Short-range energy budget simulator of single photon lidar demonstrator

Mark V. Murtazin, Ivan Prochazka, Josef Blazej, Sergey M. Pershin, Vasily N. Lednev

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Proceedings Volume 10229, Photon Counting Applications 2017; 102290R (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265787
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

The compact single photon lidar demonstrator dedicated for asteroid rendezvous missions has been designed and realized in our laboratory two years ago. The instrument provides crucial data on altitude and terrain profile for altitudes exceeding 5 km with a precision of less than 10 cm fulfilling the Rayleigh criterion. One of the calibration procedure of demonstrator is the positioning of receiver and transmitter optics related to detector and laser and the aligning of transmitter and receiver optical common paths. To improve this particular indoor calibration procedure the new simulator of single photon energy budget during short range operation has been created. The comparison of simulated and experimental data will be presented and discussed.

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Mark V. Murtazin, Ivan Prochazka, Josef Blazej, Sergey M. Pershin, and Vasily N. Lednev "Short-range energy budget simulator of single photon lidar demonstrator", Proc. SPIE 10229, Photon Counting Applications 2017, 102290R (15 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265787

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