Precise ranging for the multi regions of two complex-shape targets by using two chaotic polarization components in the optically pumped spin vertical cavity surface emitting laser with optical injection
Authors: Zhong Dong-Zhou , Zeng Neng , Yang Hua , Xu Zhe ,   Intelligent Manufacturing Faculty, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China
Published: December 2020

<sec> The ranging based on the chaotic lidar (CLR) generated by using the nonlinear dynamic of semiconductor with optical feedback or optical injection exhibits many advantages over the ranging using pulse lasers and CW lasers, such as low probability of intercept, strong anti-interference ability and low cost. Moreover, it has high resolution, benefiting from the broad bandwidth of the optical chaos. Finally, it is easily be generated and controlled due to the sensitivity of chaotic radar to laser parameters. </sec><sec> The resolution of the correlated chaotic lidar (CLR) ranging which has been reported in many literatures is largely limited by the bandwidth of the chaotic laser. An ultra-fast chaotic laser with large modulation bandwidth is required to further improve the ranging resolution. The recently proposed optically pumped spin-VCSEL has attractive features such as flexible spin control of lasing output, fast dynamics with femtosecond magnitude and large modulation bandwidth. The ultra-fast chaos radar wave emitted from the optically pumped spin-VCSEL with optical injection or optical feedback is expected to be used for improving the resolution and accuracy of target ranging. In addition, since the multi beams of CLRs were utilized in the previous works, the number of ranging targets is limited to a small number of targets. The reported CLR ranging technology cannot completely detect the distance of different regions in the target, and it is not suitable for the accurate ranging of the whole area in the complex shape target. The detection waveform based on the correlation CLR has not been designed before the target ranging, which affects the further improvement of the resolution and accuracy of the target ranging. To overcome these problems, it is necessary to further explore the theoretical and physical mechanism of the CLR ranging for the multi-region in complex shape target, and explore the new scheme and method for its realization. Motivated by these, in this paper, based on the optically pumped spin vertical cavity surface emitting laser with optical injection, we present a novel scheme for the accurate ranging of the multi regions in two complex shape targets, using two chaotic polarization components modulated by the bipolar sinc waveform. Here, these two modulated chaotic polarization probe waveforms possess the attractive features of the uncorrelation in time and space, fast dynamic with femtosecond magnitude. Utilizing these features, the accurate ranging to the position vectors of the multi regions of two complex-shape targets can be achieved by correlating the multi beams of the time-delay reflected chaotic polarization probe waveforms with their corresponding reference waveforms. The further investigations show that the ranging to the multi-region small targets possesses the very low relative error that is less than 0.94%. If the bandwidths of the photodetectors are large enough, their range resolutions are achieved as high as 0.4 mm, and exhibit excellent strong anti-noise performance and strong stability. The multi area target ranging proposed in our scheme has the following attractive advantages: stable and high range resolution, strong anti-noise ability and very low relative error. These characteristics can meet the needs of the position vector ranging of the multi regions in complex shape targets.</sec>