Alignment of the receiving channel of a pulsed laser rangefinder

Kuvshinov, N.G., Nuzhin, A.V., Pronin, V.V.

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For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Кувшинов Н.Г., Нужин А.В., Пронин В.В. Юстировка приёмного канала импульсного лазерного дальномера // Оптический журнал. 2018. Т. 85. № 2. С. 67–71. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-02-67-71

Kuvshinov N.G., Nuzhin A.V., Pronin V.V. Alignment of the receiving channel of a pulsed laser rangefinder [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2018. V. 85. № 2. P. 67–71. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-02-67-71

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

N. G. Kuvshinov, A. V. Nuzhin, and V. V. Pronin, "Alignment of the receiving channel of a pulsed laser rangefinder," Journal of Optical Technology. 85(2), 115-118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.85.000115

Abstract:

An original technique for aligning the receiving channel of a pulsed laser rangefinder is proposed. The alignment includes focusing of the photodetector and matching with the axis of the sighting channel of the rangefinder. All alignment operations are performed in the visible spectral range using a collimator setup with a telescope. The accuracy of the proposed method is estimated, and an illustration of the experiment is given.

Keywords:

laser rangefinder, aligning, collimator setup, off-axis parabola, eyepiece grid, photodetector

OCIS codes: 220.1140, 280.3400

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