[CThA17C] LIDAR and Remote Sensing

[CThA17C-04] Coherent Doppler Lidar using Optical Single Sideband Modulation

*Sean Wolfe^1,2, Takuma Shirahata^1,2, Shinji Yamashita^1,2, Sze Yun Set^1,2 (1. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan), 2. RCAST (Japan))

[Presentation Style] Onsite

This paper presents the first implementation of Coherent Doppler LiDAR using an Optical Single Sideband Modulator. Experiments show that range resolution and Doppler shift estimates are greatly improved over the traditionally used AOM.