Ghost Imaging Lidar via Sparsity Constraints in Real Atmosphere

Mingliang Chen, Enrong Li, Wenlin Gong, Zunwang Bo, Xuyang Xu, Chengqiang Zhao, Xia Shen, Wendong Xu, Shensheng Han

Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Center for Cold Atom Physics of CAS, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2013.32B021                

Abstract

We present a series of results acquired at a 2-kilometer distance using our lidar system under several weather conditions, clear, cloudy, light rain, moderately foggy, and night. The experimental results show that ghost imaging lidar via spar-sity constraints can realize imaging in all these weather conditions.

Keywords

Ghost Imaging; Lidar; Atmosphere; Reconstruction Algorithm

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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