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

Just in case yer wonderin', July's IEEE Spectrum has an article on the
new laser radar detectors.  No mention of detection schema, but it uses a
pulsed-radar principle.  It transmits a burst of pulses over a few 10ths of
a second, then does a regression analysis on the measured delays.  From what
I could glean from the article, however, the down-the-road laser cannot
(unlike normal radar) be used in moving mode.  Hope this helps.
Ian
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