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  • Ove Steinvall

    Ove Steinvall received his MS degree in Physics at the University of Uppsala in 1969. He was then employed by the National Defence Res. Establishment (FOA, now FOI) in 1969. He received his PhD in 1974 from the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Lasers and Electro-Optics. Since 1977, he has been leading the Laser group, from 1994 as a Department Head and from 2007 as head of the Optronic Systems Department, and currently as a research director. His research activities include lasers, lasers for countermeasures, laser warning, laser radar/lidar including systems for imaging and mapping, free space laser communications and ocean /atmospheric optics. He is author or coauthor of about 100 conference and journal articles and approximately 300 internal reports. Dr. Steinvall is a fellow of the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and a member of the Optical Society of America, the Swedish Optical Society, and the Royal Academy of Military Sciences. He has received three national awards for his laser work. He has also received the NATO Scientific Achievement Award (SET-077). He has been the conference chair for several laser conferences. He is an expert in EDA Captech IAP3 and holds a position as Assistant Professor at the Chalmers Institute of Technology.

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Advanced Optical Technologies
From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 3 Issue 2

Abstract

Active imaging and mapping using lasers as illumination sources have been of increasing interest during the last decades. Applications range from defense and security, remote sensing, medicine, robotics, and others. So far, these laser systems have mostly been based on a fix wavelength laser. Recent advances in lasers enable emission of tunable, multiline, or broadband emission, which together with the development of array detectors will extend the capabilities of active imaging and mapping. This paper will review some of the recent work on active imaging mainly for defense and security and remote sensing applications. A short survey of basic lidar relations and present fix wavelength laser systems is followed by a review of the benefits of adding the spectral dimension to active and/or passive electro-optical systems.

Keywords: active imaging; ladar; laser sensors; lidar; mapping; remote sensing; spectral imaging
Corresponding author: Ove Steinvall, Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Box 1165, Linköping, Sweden, e-mail:

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Ove Steinvall

Ove Steinvall received his MS degree in Physics at the University of Uppsala in 1969. He was then employed by the National Defence Res. Establishment (FOA, now FOI) in 1969. He received his PhD in 1974 from the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Lasers and Electro-Optics. Since 1977, he has been leading the Laser group, from 1994 as a Department Head and from 2007 as head of the Optronic Systems Department, and currently as a research director. His research activities include lasers, lasers for countermeasures, laser warning, laser radar/lidar including systems for imaging and mapping, free space laser communications and ocean /atmospheric optics. He is author or coauthor of about 100 conference and journal articles and approximately 300 internal reports. Dr. Steinvall is a fellow of the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and a member of the Optical Society of America, the Swedish Optical Society, and the Royal Academy of Military Sciences. He has received three national awards for his laser work. He has also received the NATO Scientific Achievement Award (SET-077). He has been the conference chair for several laser conferences. He is an expert in EDA Captech IAP3 and holds a position as Assistant Professor at the Chalmers Institute of Technology.

Acknowledgments

The work and examples referring to the Swedish Research Agency (FOI) have been supported by the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Defense Material Administration (FMV), and the European Defense Agency (EDA).

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Received: 2013-12-20
Accepted: 2014-1-20
Published Online: 2014-2-28
Published in Print: 2014-4-1

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Keywords for this article
active imaging; ladar; laser sensors; lidar; mapping; remote sensing; spectral imaging

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Cover and Frontmatter
  2. Views
  3. Transferring diffractive optics from research to commercial applications: Part II – size estimations for selected markets
  4. Community
  5. Conference Notes
  6. Conference Calendar
  7. Topical Issue: Active Imaging
  8. Editorial
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  10. Tutorials
  11. Quantum cascade lasers (QCL) for active hyperspectral imaging
  12. Active gated imaging in driver assistance system
  13. Review Articles
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  15. Beam shaping of laser diode stacks for compact and efficient illumination devices at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis
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