Author Affiliations
1Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics & Electricity, Beijing 100094, China2South-West Institute of Technical Physics, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan , China3School of Physics and Astronomy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan , Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Difference between Gaussian pulse function and heavy tail pulse function
Fig. 2. Optical system of single-photon imaging
Fig. 3. Polarization filtering model of backscattering of optical system
Fig. 4. Flow chart of photon-counting of laser echo impulse
Fig. 5. Flow chart of photon counting of laser echo pulse
Fig. 6. Photon number of pulse laser echo in different orbit altitudes. (a) Orbit altitude 36000 km; (b) orbit altitude 500 km; (c) orbit altitude 250 km; (d) orbit altitude 50 km
Fig. 7. Photon number of pulse laser echo in same replication number and different gate number. (a) Replication number 100,gate number 2000; (b) replication number 100,gate number 200; (c) replication number 100,gate number 20; (d) replication number 100,gate number 4
Fig. 8. Photon number of pulse laser echo when replication number not less than gate number. (a) Replication number 2000,gate number 2000; (b) replication number 2000,gate number 1000; (c) replication number 1000,gate number 1000; (d) replication number 1000,gate number 200
Parameter | Nominal value |
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Wavelength /nm | 1550 | Half pulse width PW /ns | 10 | Pulse energy E /mJ | 20 | Pulse repetition frequency flaser /Hz | 2000 | Average power /W | 40 |
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Table 1. Pulse laser parameters
Parameter | Nominal value |
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Focal length f /m | 6.5 | F# | 6.5 | Transmittance ρ | 0.9 |
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Table 2. Optical system parameters
Parameter | Nominal value |
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Array size | 16×16 | Pixel size p /μm | 10 | Filling factor FFF | 0.6 | Photon detection efficiency EPDE | 0.3 | Dark count rate RDCR /s-1 | 107 | Dead time TDT /ns | 100 | Timing jitter /ps | 50 |
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Table 3. SPAD parameters
No. | Replication | Gate | Peak value | Peak time /s | Time accuracy /s | Ranging accuracy /m |
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1 | 2000 | 2000 | 430 | 0.0033+1.9450×10-8 | 6.0000×10-10 | 0.0900 | 2 | 2000 | 1000 | 579 | 0.0033+2.1200×10-8 | 1.1500×10-9 | 0.1725 | 3 | 1000 | 1000 | 294 | 0.0033+1.9000×10-8 | 1.0500×10-9 | 0.1575 | 4 | 1000 | 200 | 510 | 0.0033+2.3000×10-8 | 2.9500×10-9 | 0.4425 |
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Table 4. Simulation results of ranging accuracy