Optical radar

US5048950A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dornier GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Metzdorff · Friedrichshafen, DE
• Peter Lux · Hamburg, DE
• Max Eibert · Friedrichshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1990
• Grant date: Sep 17, 1991
• Expiry date: May 14, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S7/4815
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Optical radar includes a linear transmitter diode array with each diode in the array being individually controllable for transmitting a light pulse on being triggered; and a receiver diode array is positioned in relation to the transmitter array in conjunction with optical imaging means such that a diode of the transmitter array is imaged on the ground on the same area which is seen by a particular diode of the receiver array so that a 1:1 relation is established between a diode providing a particular transmitted light pulse and a diode that can receive said pulse.