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mmaster@parnasus.dell.com (Michael Masterson) writes:
>So far, Cincinatti Microwave has a model out, and Bel has one about to
>hit stores, CM claims 2500feet detection range, Bel claims 5000 feet,
>the range on the speedguns is only about a thousand feet.
>The detectors are based on the technology that was used to detect
>laser guided weapons in Desert Storm.

       Anyone know what they're using as a detector?  I'm building a laser
rangefinder for robot vision, and I'd like to know what these guys use.
PIN diodes don't put out much output and avalanche diodes are too nonlinear
for use when the beam is dimmer than the ambient light.  So what do they
use to get that kind of S/N?

					John Nagle