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Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2020
Applicant:

Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Hodge Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Eran Marcus, Culver City, CA (US);

Assignee:

RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/489 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 7/489 (2013.01); G01S 7/4811 (2013.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract

Lidar and method for generating repeatable PPM waveforms to determine a range to a target include: a processor for a) creating a modulation pool, based on a maximum nominal PRF and a specified final PPM code length of N; b) obtaining a seed code; c) eliminating bad modulation levels from the modulation pool to generate a good modulation pool, d) selecting a modulation level from the good modulation pool; e) concatenating the selected modulation level to the seed code to generate an i-element modulation sequence; f) repeating steps c to e N times to generate an N-element modulation sequence; g) selecting a PRF less than the maximum nominal PRF; and h) generating a repeatable PPM waveform by applying the N-element modulation sequence to the selected PRF.


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