Subject Area: Opto-electronical Test System for LIDAR Sensor Systems

The further development of imaging LIDAR technologies is of great interest for the future field of autonomous driving and remote sensing. As laser-based sensor systems, they offer a higher spatial resolution than radar systems and guarantee the necessary sensor redundancy. To ensure sufficient accuracy, e.g. for safety-relevant applications such as autonomous driving, comprehensive test systems are required, which so far only exist in rudimentary form.

A highly compact optoelectrical LIDAR target simulator is being developed as part of this project. It records and calibrates the solid angle and distance resolution, measures the optical performance and tests the LIDAR system with regard to eye safety. For this purpose, the LIDAR simulates an artificial target in space and simultaneously measures the beam properties.

The field-of-view of the LIDAR is captured by an optical front end, variably delayed, modulated and analyzed in the back end and then scattered back to the LIDAR via the front end.

Supervisor: Christian Carlowitz, Johannes Reichstein
Keywords: Photonics, hardware, simulation, Zemax OpticStudio, measurement technology
Contact: christian.carlowitz@fau.de, johannes.reichstein@fau.de

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