Real-time distance and velocity measurement based on the dual-comb system.

Abstract

With the development of laser metrology, the dual-comb system has natural superiority in the measuring fields. Specifically, distance and velocity represent a basic state for the target in space. We propose an application mode of the dual-comb interferometry integrated into the field programmable gate array. A high-speed parallel processor truly gives full play to the benefit of the data processing rate. The algorithm of the peak extraction and the address matching also bring an efficient working mode into the whole scheme. To verify the performance of this system, we devise a series of experiments for distance and velocity, respectively. The data processing rate of the distance is 425 Hz and that of the corresponding average velocity is 0.425 Hz, which is flexible for different measuring conditions. The experimental results show that the difference can be well within 252.8 µm at 5 m range and 284.9 µm/s over 0.5 m/s.