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Laser gated viewing at ISL for vision through smoke, active polarimetry, and 3D imaging in NIR and SWIR wavelength bands

  • Martin Laurenzis

    Martin Laurenzis obtained his MSc in Physics from the University of Dortmund (Germany) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Aachen (Germany). He is specialized in the area of night vision systems and active imaging with a particular interest in vision in poor weather conditions. He is currently developing new 3D techniques and new theoretical tools for performance evaluation of 3D active imaging systems.

     EMAIL logo     and Frank Christnacher

    Frank Christnacher received his MSc and his PhD from the University of Haute-Alsace (France) in the field of Optical Data Processing and Pattern Recognition. He is currently the head of the Optronics and On-Board Visionics group of the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis. Specialized in the area of night vision imaging systems and active imaging, he is particularly interested in long-distance vision and in vision in degraded weather conditions. He initiated and led numerous international scientific collaborations.
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Advanced Optical Technologies
From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 2 Issue 5-6

Abstract

In this article, we want to give a review on the application of laser gated viewing for the improvement of vision cross-diffusing obstacles (smoke, turbid medium, …), the capturing of 3D scene information, or the study of material properties by polarimetric analysis at near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) wavelengths. Laser gated viewing has been studied since the 1960s as an active night vision method. Owing to enormous improvements in the development of compact and highly efficient laser sources and in the development of modern sensor technologies, the maturity of demonstrator systems rose during the past decades. Further, it was demonstrated that laser gated viewing has versatile sensing capabilities with application for long-range observation under certain degraded weather conditions, vision through obstacles and fog, active polarimetry, and 3D imaging.

Keywords: 3D imaging; active polarimetry; laser gated viewing; laser speckle reduction; range gating; vision through obstacles; OCIS code: 110.0110
Corresponding author: Martin Laurenzis, French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), 5 Rue du General Cassagnou, 68301 Saint-Louis, France, e-mail:

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Martin Laurenzis

Martin Laurenzis obtained his MSc in Physics from the University of Dortmund (Germany) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Aachen (Germany). He is specialized in the area of night vision systems and active imaging with a particular interest in vision in poor weather conditions. He is currently developing new 3D techniques and new theoretical tools for performance evaluation of 3D active imaging systems.

Frank Christnacher

Frank Christnacher received his MSc and his PhD from the University of Haute-Alsace (France) in the field of Optical Data Processing and Pattern Recognition. He is currently the head of the Optronics and On-Board Visionics group of the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis. Specialized in the area of night vision imaging systems and active imaging, he is particularly interested in long-distance vision and in vision in degraded weather conditions. He initiated and led numerous international scientific collaborations.

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Received: 2013-7-12
Accepted: 2013-8-29
Published Online: 2013-10-02
Published in Print: 2013-12-01

©2013 by THOSS Media & De Gruyter Berlin Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/aot-2013-0040
Keywords for this article
3D imaging; active polarimetry; laser gated viewing; laser speckle reduction; range gating; vision through obstacles; OCIS code: 110.0110

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Masthead
  2. Masthead
  3. Views
  4. State of photonics-related industry in Japan: Digital economy is creating a deep integration in East Asia
  5. Transferring diffractive optics from research to commercial applications: Part I – progress in the patent landscape
  6. Community
  7. News from the European Optical Society
  8. Conference Notes
  9. Conference Calendar
  10. Topical Issue: Remote Sensing
  11. Editorial
  12. Remote sensing
  13. Tutorial
  14. Speckle effects in target-in-the-loop laser beam projection systems
  15. Review Articles
  16. Laser gated viewing at ISL for vision through smoke, active polarimetry, and 3D imaging in NIR and SWIR wavelength bands
  17. Infrared detectors for space applications
  18. Research Article
  19. Alternative design for extremely large telescopes and options to use the VATT for ELT design demonstration
  20. Letters
  21. Holographic wavefront sensor for fast defocus measurement
  22. Beam combining of quantum cascade lasers for remote sensing
  23. Review Article
  24. Design of freeform optics
  25. Research Article
  26. NIR cutoff filter for true color imaging sensors
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