Pulse-compression ghost imaging lidar via coherent detection.

@article{Deng2016PulsecompressionGI,
  title={Pulse-compression ghost imaging lidar via coherent detection.},
  author={Chenjin Deng and Wenlin Gong and Shensheng Han},
  journal={Optics express},
  year={2016},
  volume={24 23},
  pages={
          25983-25994
        }
}
Ghost imaging (GI) lidar, as a novel remote sensing technique, has been receiving increasing interest in recent years. By combining pulse-compression technique and coherent detection with GI, we propose a new lidar system called pulse-compression GI lidar. Our analytical results, which are backed up by numerical simulations, demonstrate that pulse-compression GI lidar can obtain the target's spatial intensity distribution, range and moving velocity. Compared with conventional pulsed GI lidar… 
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