Abstract
Femtosecond laser ranging has drawn great interest in recent years, particularly based on an asynchronous optical sampling implementation where a pair of femtosecond lasers are used. High precision absolute ranging either relies on tightly-phase-locked optical frequency combs (a dual-comb setup) or multiple averaging of the measurements from two free-running femtosecond lasers. The former technique is too complicated for practical applications, while the latter technique does not apply to moving targets. In this report, we propose a new route to utilizing a powerful singular spectrum analysis (SSA) filtering method to improve femtosecond laser ranging precision for moving targets with acceleration. The SSA method is capable of separating complex patterns in signals without a priori knowledge of the dynamical model. Here, we utilize the basic SSA filter to extract the target trajectory in the presence of measurement noise both in numerical simulation and in the absolute ranging experiment based on a pair of free-running femtosecond lasers. The experimentally-achieved absolute ranging uncertainty of a moving target is well below 110 nm at a 200-Hz update rate by applying the basic SSA filter. This method paves the way to the practical applications of femtosecond absolute ranging for dynamic objects.
Funder
Tianjin Natural Science Foundation
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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4 articles.
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