Ladar Pulse Deconfliction Method
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- encoding a plurality of ladar pulses via a controllable delay between successive ladar pulses, wherein the controllable delay defines the encoding;
transmitting, by a ladar transmitter, the encoded ladar pulses;
receiving a signal, the received signal including the reflected encoded ladar pulses and noise; and
identifying the reflected encoded ladar pulses within the received signal based on the controllable delay.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments that employ controllable delays between successive ladar pulses in order to discriminate between “own” ladar pulse reflections and “interfering” ladar pulses reflections by a receiver. Example embodiments include designs where a sparse delay sum circuit is used at the receiver and where a funnel filter is used at the receiver. Also, disclosed are techniques for selecting codes to use for the controllable delays as well as techniques for identifying and tracking interfering ladar pulses and their corresponding delay codes. The use of a ladar system with pulse deconfliction is also disclosed as part of an optical data communication system.
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27 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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encoding a plurality of ladar pulses via a controllable delay between successive ladar pulses, wherein the controllable delay defines the encoding; transmitting, by a ladar transmitter, the encoded ladar pulses; receiving a signal, the received signal including the reflected encoded ladar pulses and noise; and identifying the reflected encoded ladar pulses within the received signal based on the controllable delay. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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