Abstract
Coherent LIDAR is a potential and effective technology to detect and identify space debris. However, for the high-speed space debris, the large Doppler frequency shift (DFS) generated by high-speed relative motion challenges the bandwidth of the photoelectric detection system and increases the difficulty of datasampling and processing. In this paper, we propose an effective method to compensate this large DFS adaptively by using an optical phase-locked loop (OPLL), and thus the relative velocity between the target and LIDAR platform can be obtained. A laboratory experiment for moving targets with our OPLL method has been conducted, and it revealed that our method worked well to compensate for 64 MHz frequency difference, thus the relative velocity is about 26 m/s based on the compensated DFS. And the beat frequency is always locked to the reference frequency, while the DFS generated by variable speed motion is compensated adaptively. The proposed compensation method could improve the performance of coherent LIDAR significantly, especially when detecting high-speed target.
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