To address the issues of maritime border surveillance or long range UAV identification, we develop two laser imagers (a 2D and a 3D system) with long range (LR) capacities to improve significantly the performances in terms of scope of monitoring and persistence of functions (e.g. H24, degraded visibility...). These systems are based on a new generation of focal plane arrays (FPA) with Avalanche PhotoDiode (APD) and are combined with high-performance image processing ("real-time") devoted to superresolution or tracking. In this paper, we first present the results of several maritime surveillance or Counter- Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) demonstrations respectively conducted on a coastal site and a sensitive area. Comparisons between passive and active sensors are shown. The measurements obtained on various maritime targets are completed by end to end modelling in order to assess the systems performances in various atmospheric environments.
This paper describes a data collection on passive and active imaging and the preliminary analysis. It is part of an ongoing work on active and passive imaging for target identification using different wavelength bands. We focus on data collection at NIR-SWIR wavelengths but we also include the visible and the thermal region. Active imaging in NIRSWIR will support the passive imaging by eliminating shadows during day-time and allow night operation. Among the applications that are most likely for active multispectral imaging, we focus on long range human target identification. We also study the combination of active and passive sensing. The target scenarios of interest include persons carrying different objects and their associated activities. We investigated laser imaging for target detection and classification up to 1 km assuming that another cueing sensor – passive EO and/or radar – is available for target acquisition and detection. Broadband or multispectral operation will reduce the effects of target speckle and atmospheric turbulence. Longer wavelengths will improve performance in low visibility conditions due to haze, clouds and fog. We are currently performing indoor and outdoor tests to further investigate the target/background phenomena that are emphasized in these wavelengths. We also investigate how these effects can be used for target identification and image fusion. Performed field tests and the results of preliminary data analysis are reported.
New AlOx VCSELs are very interesting for dual-purpose applications, since the emitting aperture, which guide the current lines, may be reduced to a few microns; in parallel, the ALOx diaphragm is transparent to near IR radiations. Thus, with such devices, we can get a detective area greater than the emissive one. We present in this paper our first results for an experimental numerical optical link between two linear AlOx VCSEL arrays. We first give the characteristics of the VCSEL arrays used in our experiment and describe the associated electronics. Then we present the results obtained on our test link and the problem encountered in transmission at a data rate greater than 50 Mbits/s. Finally, we tried to explain this limitation by characterizing the bandwidths of the electronics and testing all the elements on a network analyzer.
Multi-level electronic integration of massively parallel computers leads to latency effects and 110 bottlenecks. Free space optical interconnections might be a good alternative to interconnect processors located on face to face PC boards. When the processors are integrated in MultiChip Modules, an obvious improvement to the latency problem can be making the MCMs to communicate from board to board. We present here part of a project which was led in collaboration with the CEA ILETIIDEIN(Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique ) in Saclay ( France ). The LETI DEIN was in charge of the conception of the parallel architecture, of the design of the MCMs and of the electrical architecture. The Optics Department of ONERA CERT has to make the choice of the optoelectronic components, their caracterization and hybridization.
We propose to characterize various coding domains for the joint transform correlator. To achieve that, optimal trade- off filters have ben computed and then optimally constrained to given coding domains with an algorithm we have developed. Then, these coding domains have been evaluated in relation to the trade-offs they achieve.
We previously proposed and implemented a joint transform correlator (JTC) using an optimal trade-off synthetic discriminant function (OT-SDF) filter in order to provide in-plane rotation ivariance. We propose to improve that system by using what we call a synthetic discriminant estimating function (SDEF) filter which also estimates the object rotation angle (without degrading the discrimination capability) through modulating the phase of the correlation peak. Most SDFs/SEFs (synthetic estimating filters) which were real-constrained so far, used the correlation peak height both to determine the object class and to estimate the varying parameter (here the rotation angle); a single correlation could be ambiguous and was not suffiicient. We propose to use the amplitude of the correlation peak only for the discrimination and its phase (which was a free parameter up to now) to indicate the object orientation: we constrain the correlation peak modulus as before, but also constrain the correlation peak phase to be a linear function of the input object rotation angel. Now, discrimination and orientation estimation can be performed simultaneously.
We present the OEDIPE project (Opto-Electronic DIgital Processeurs Elementaires). We explain the motivations for massively parallel opto-electronic computer and describe the architecture of the computer, we point out the optical interconnections based on fan-in and fan-out functions and opto-electronic technology suitable for the project.
We present here the state of development of our MILORD machine. MILORD is a multiprocessor
architecture organized around a 32 x 32 optical crossbar network. This network interconnects 16 INMOS
T4 14 microprocessors with four bidirectional links each. Once the system integration was made, we
have noted the existence of errors on the optical links caused by the presence of modal noise at the
output of the optical fibers. A theroretical analysis of modal noise effect is presented and solutions to
avoid it in optical networks are proposed. This study is still in progress at the Optics Department.
We examine the possibilities to improve the three main parameters of such networks : the number of
links, the reconfiguration time, the data rate. We give a theoretical and quite general analysis about the
bit error rate performance as a function of the mean power available at each output of such matrixvector
inner product optical networks.
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