Photon-counting chirped amplitude modulation lidar with 1.5-GHz gated InGaAs/InP APD

Zhaohui Li; Zeyu Bao; Yafan Shi; Baicheng Feng; E. Wu; Guang Wu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1109/LPT.2014.2386354

Photon-counting chirped amplitude modulation lidar with 1.5-GHz gated InGaAs/InP APD

Zhaohui Li
, Zeyu Bao
, Yafan Shi
, Baicheng Feng
, E. Wu
, Guang Wu
, Heping Zeng

East China Normal University

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Abstract

We demonstrated a photon-counting chirped amplitude modulation (CAM) Lidar at 1550 nm. In the previous studies, the CAM bandwidth was limited <30 MHz due to the large dead time of the single-photon detectors. In our CAM Lidar system, an InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode was operated in 1.5-GHz sine-wave gated Geiger mode to reduce the dead time to 6.4 ns. As a result, the CAM bandwidth exceeded 200 MHz, while the modulation period was 0.5 ms, leading to a direct distance accuracy of 0.12 m in daylight environment. This system presented a potential for high accuracy and eye-safe CAM Lidar system.

Original language	English
Article number	7003977
Pages (from-to)	616-619
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	27
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2386354
State	Published - 15 Mar 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs)
Lidar
Photon-counting

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