基于不同散射机制特征的海杂波时变多普勒谱模型

海杂波的多普勒谱建模对采用多普勒处理技术的雷达进行有效的海杂波抑制和目标检测具有重要的意义.本文分别考虑Bragg,白冠和破碎波三种散射机制对应的多普勒谱分量的特征,对三种谱分量的频移和展宽进行分离,并引入附加速度频移量,提出了基于不同散射机制特征的雷达海杂波时变多普勒谱模型.该模型假设谱强度为受观测时间区间影响的随机变量,能够同时适用于平均多普勒谱与短时多普勒谱建模.通过分别对黄海海域实测的岸基P,S波段海杂波平均多普勒谱与短时多普勒谱建模测试,结果表明该模型相对传统模型的建模精度更高,尤其体现在短时谱的观测时间较长和平均谱形式较为复杂的情况下,建模误差显著减小.     

Calculation of turbulence effects on acoustic remote-sensing system

Summary A mathematical tool for the calculation of the effects of turbulence on acoustic remote-sensing systems is described. The systems taken into account are sodar, which operates in air, and underwater acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP). Included in the modelling are echo spectrum broadening and the contribution of turbulence to the scattering cross-section. A method for the measurement of the transverse velocity with a single beam is also suggested.     

频谱分析型激光多普勒测速仪信号处理技术

为了提高激光多普勒测速仪的测量精度,提出对激光多普勒信号先进行跟踪滤波,再进行频谱细化和频谱校正的信号处理方法,并利用信号处理系统对实测的多普勒信号进行了实验研究。实验结果表明:跟踪滤波器在滤除基底信号及系统的部分噪声的基础上,实时跟踪多普勒信号的频率,信噪比明显提高,所得结果与多普勒频率的真实值相一致;频谱细化技术大大提高了频谱分辨力,频谱校正技术使校正后的频率更接近真实值。     

Scattering of sound waves by a turbulent wake

In this investigation, the Doppler shifted power spectrum of the scattering cross-section is obtained for plane acoustic waves scattered by fluid flow fluctuations appropriate to a turbulent wake. The wake considered in this paper is assumed almost homogeneous and isotropic and of low Reynolds number.It is shown that the evaluation of the Doppler scattering cross-section essentially reduces to the calculation of the wave number converted and frequency shifted energy spectrum function of the turbulent flow fluctuations. In prescribing the low Reynolds number turbulence spectrum, inertial forces are assumed negligible. Convective effects of the macro-eddies, which cause a Doppler shift in the scattered waves, are considered using a Lagrangian-type of space-time velocity correlation.After finding the spectrum of turbulent fluctuations, the Doppler shifted power spectrum of the scattering cross-section, which characterizes the scattered waves, is obtained explicitly for the far field approximation.     

Pulsatile flow measurement in hydraulic systems using a laser velocimeter

Servo valves find their major application in high performance hydraulic control systems where the accurate control of position, velocity and load is essential. Because of this, it is important to determine the dynamic characteristics of the servo valve (i.e. flow rate as a function of input command signal) more precisely.Previous techniques for this evaluation depended on monitoring spool position using linear transducers, since flow measurement techniques capable of following fast transients and oscillating (or pulsating) flows were not easily applied. The introduction of the laser Doppler anemometer changes this. Steady state flow measurement, using the dual beam scatter system, is now common but since it needs a spectrum analyser to measure the Doppler frequency it is not suitable for unsteady flow. Since hydraulic systems are relatively particle free, the Doppler signals are dreceived intermittently. Because of this, a signal processing system has been developed which measures the period of one or more oscillations in the frequency burst caused by a scattering particle passing through the control volume.Using this technique steady and unsteady laminar flow profiles have been measured in order to assess its effectiveness in the performance testing of hydraulic servo systems.     

Doppler power spectrum from a Gaussian sample volume

A closed-form expression for the Doppler power spectrum due solely to the range of blood velocities passing through a Gaussian sample volume placed anywhere in a vessel under conditions of axisymmetric flow, uniform backscatter and negligible intrinsic spectral broadening has been derived. The formulation presented here allows the independent specification of the sample volume position and width, in the three dimensions, and enables simple estimations of spectral shape for pulsed wave Doppler systems. Simpler expressions were derived for the cases of symmetric sample volume projections onto the vessel cross-section and/or sample volumes centred in the vessel. Closed form expressions were derived for mean frequency and spectral width in the case of a symmetric sample volume projection centred in the vessel. The effects of sample volume size and position on the Doppler spectral width and mean frequency are shown for a range of velocity profiles.     

Effect of deviation from plane wave conditions on the Doppler spectrum from an ultrasonic blood flow detector.

Deviation from plane wave conditions within the ultrasound beam of a Doppler blood flow detector leads to a non-linear relationship between the phase angle of the back-scattered signal and the scatterer position. This in turn leads to frequency modulation of the Doppler signal and an increase in the Doppler spectrum width. The relationship between the ultrasound beam and the observed signal spectrum has been investigated by employing a computer-based model of the ultrasound field which enabled the calculation of: 1, pressure (amplitude and phase angle) field distributions from plane disc and focused transducers with unapodized and apodized aperture field distributions; 2, the Doppler signal from a scatterer moving through the field; and 3, the spectrum of this signal. The increase in spectral width resulting from deviations from plane wave conditions was calculated by comparing this spectrum with that of the signal from which frequency modulation had been removed.     

Velocity-estimation accuracy and frame-rate limitations in color Doppler optical coherence tomography

Color Doppler optical coherence tomography (CDOCT) is a recent innovation that allows spatially localized flow-velocity mapping simultaneously with microstructural imaging. We present a theoretical model for velocity-image formation in CDOCT. The proportionality between the heterodyne detector current Doppler power spectrum in CDOCT and the optical source power spectrum is established. We show that stochastic modifications of the Doppler spectrum by fluctuating scatterer distributions in the flow field give rise to unavoidable velocity-estimation inaccuracies as well as to a fundamental trade-off between image-acquisition rate and velocity precision. Novel algorithms that permit high-fidelity depth-resolved measurements of velocities in turbid media are also reported.     

Laser Doppler velocimeter using a single longitudinal mode solid-state laser source

An experimental demonstration of using a single longitudinal mode solid-state laser source in laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) is presented. The technology of frequency spectrum correction is used in processing Doppler signal. The results of the experiments show that: the magnitude and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of Doppler signal are both enhanced by the solid-state laser; the measurement accuracy of LDV is improved by the technology of frequency spectrum correction, and the variance of the measured Doppler frequency is larger than the Cramer-Rao low bound (CRLB) of Doppler frequency about one order of magnitude.     

瑞利散射多普勒测风激光雷达的校准

 在进行实际风速测量之前,对于新研制的测风激光雷达系统进行校准,可以验证并提高风速测量的准确性。根据瑞利散射多普勒激光雷达的测量原理,提出了利用瑞利散射谱和米散射谱之间的关系,采用运动硬目标实现对瑞利散射多普勒测风激光雷达进行校准的方法。设计了对瑞利散射多普勒测风激光雷达进行校准的实验系统,并给出了详细的校准步骤。     

Estimation of sea clutter inherent Doppler spectrum from shipborne S-band radar sea echo

Measurement of shipborne radar sea echo is instrumental in collecting the sea clutter data in open sea areas. However,the ship movement would introduce an extra Doppler component into the spectrum of the sea clutter, so the sea clutter inherent spectrum must be estimated prior to investigating the sea clutter Doppler characteristics from the shipborne radar sea echo. In this paper we show some results about a shipborne sea clutter measurement experiment that was conducted in the South China Sea in a period between 2017 and 2018; abundant clutter data have been collected by using a shipborne S-band clutter measurement radar. To obtain the sea clutter inherent Doppler spectrum from these data, an estimation method, based on the mapping relationship between the shipborne clutter spectrum and the inherent clutter spectrum, is proposed. This method is validated by shipborne clutter data sets under the same measuring conditions except for the ship speed. Using this method, the characteristics of the Doppler spectrum lineshapes in the South China Sea are calculated and analyzed according to different sea states, wave directions, and radar resolutions, which can be instrumental in designing the radar target detection algorithms.     

油膜覆盖的非线性海面电磁散射多普勒谱特性研究

当海面上方漂浮油膜时,海面的毛细波成分将因油膜的阻尼作用而被破坏.本文采用PM谱,基于Marangoni阻尼效应,建立油膜覆盖的一维Creamer非线性海面模型,并简单分析了油膜的阻尼作用对海面轮廓的影响.在此基础上,利用迭代物理光学方法研究了L波段下该模型的后向散射回波的多普勒谱特性,通过与基于线性模型的海面散射回波多普勒谱对比发现,在大中入射角下,非线性海面散射回波与线性海面多普勒谱的差异不可忽略,说明采用Creamer非线性理论建立海面几何模型的必要性.研究发现,油膜覆盖海面的散射回波的多普勒频移及展宽与干净海面雷达回波的多普勒特性具有明显差异,这表明海面上漂浮的油膜对雷达散射回波的多普勒特性具有显著的影响.数值结果重点分析了入射角、油膜参数以及风速对油膜覆盖海面散射回波多普勒谱展宽和频移的影响规律.     

Effect of frequency dependent processes on pulsed Doppler sample volume

The change in the frequency spectrum of ultrasound pulses as a result of frequency dependent attenuation and scatter is known to alter the spectrum of Doppler signals from blood flow parallel to the beam axis. It is shown here that the change in pulse shape accompanying this pulse spectrum change as a result of these processes, together with the velocity dispersion accompanying frequency dependent attenuation and linked to it by the Kramers-Kronig relations, will change the pulsed Doppler sample volume shape and position.     

Nonlinear resonances free of field and doppler broadenings

For the case where the Rabi frequencies of the guiding fields are much larger than the relaxation constants but much smaller than the Doppler broadening, it is shown that resonances which are neither field nor Doppler broadened can appear in the absorption (or gain) spectrum of the probe field. A classification of four-level systems according to the number of resonances is made for cases where two strong fields interact either with opposite or adjoining transitions. The conditions under which the number of resonances reaches eight, while for stationary atoms the maximum number is four, are found. A method is proposed for calculating the number of resonances in a multilevel system with several strong fields using analysis of the extremum points of the frequency branches in the velocity-frequency plane.     

A technique for removing platform vibration noise from a pulsed ladar vibration sensor

A technique has been developed for removing platform-induced vibration noise from a pulsed ladar vibration sensor. Deriving the vibrational characteristics of the platform is accomplished by simulating ambient atmospheric aerosols as a stationary reference target. Using a pulsed coherent detection ladar, the instantaneous Doppler frequency shifts from both aerosols and a distant hard target are measured and recorded, while the data acquisition is range gated so that both Doppler measurements are made from a single pulse. Periodic measurements are then made to develop a time history of the fluctuations in the Doppler signals, after which two vibration spectra are derived by Fourier transforming the time histories of the instantaneous Doppler shifts. The first spectrum contains information regarding the relative motion between the target and platform, while the second spectrum contains information regarding the relative motion between the platform and the stationary aerosols. When the second spectrum is subtracted from the first, the resulting spectrum is the true vibrational signature of the target. The advantages of this new technique over conventional continuous wave ladar vibration sensors are: target range information is obtainable; the average power required from the laser is significantly reduced; and additional sensing equipment is not needed to derive the platform-induced noise spectrum. The principles of this technique are experimentally verified using a 2 μm pulsed ladar.     

Signal processing of double-beam and double-scattering laser Doppler velocimeter

The common method of laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) signal processing is fast Fourier transform (FFT). Because of the restraint of spectral interference, fence effect and spectrum leakage, the precision of FFT is not high. In order to improve the accuracy of double-beam and double-scattering laser Doppler velocimeter signal processing, an algorithm based on spectral refinement and interpolation is put forward. First, high-pass filter is adopted to remove the baseplate of LDV signal. Second, FFT is adopted to get the estimate of Doppler frequency and then Zoom-FFT is used to refine the local range of Doppler frequency. Third, four-term fifth derivative Nuttall windowed interpolation is used to correct the refined spectrum. Then the accurate estimate of Doppler frequency can be obtained. Simulations and experiments based on the LDV system built in laboratory show that Zoom-FFT can improve the resolution of spectrum and four-term fifth derivative Nuttall windowed interpolation can further increase the precision of signal processing.     

水声通信实验信道仿真研究

水声信道的时变多途特性对其中通信信号传输构成严重影响，为了分析评估现实实验信道条件下水声通信系统的性能，给出了一种基于实验测量的水声信道仿真方法。此方法通过发射线性调频脉冲以检测信道多径结构，同时分别采用自回归模型与多普勒时间压扩来仿真信道中各路径的时变幅度与时变延迟。通过一个具体的直接序列扩频水声通信系统，表明在仿真与实验信道条件下系统性能具有较好的一致性。     

Research on laser Doppler velocimeter for vehicle self-contained inertial navigation system

An idea of using laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) to measure the velocity for the vehicle inertial navigation system was put forward. The principle of measuring its own velocity with laser Doppler technique was elaborated and reference-beam LDV was designed. Then Doppler signal was processed by tracking filter, frequency spectrum refinement and frequency spectrum correction algorithm. The result of theory and experiment showed that the reference-beam LDV solved the problem that dual-beam LDV cannot be used for measuring when the system was out of focus. Doppler signal was tracked so that signal-to-noise ratio was improved, and the accuracy of the system was enhanced by the technology of frequency spectrum refinement and correction. The measurement mean error was less than 1.5% in velocity range of 0-30 m/s.     

Stretched-exponential Doppler spectra in underwater acoustic communication channels

The theory of underwater sound interacting with the sea surface predicts a Gaussian-spread frequency spectrum in the case of a large Rayleigh parameter. However, recent channel soundings reveal more sharply peaked spectra with heavier tails. The measured Doppler spread increases with the frequency and differs between multipath arrivals. The overall Doppler spectrum of a broadband waveform is the sum of the spectra of all constituent paths and frequencies, and is phenomenologically described by a stretched or compressed exponential. The stretched exponential also fits well to the broadband spectrum of a single propagation path, and narrowband spectra summed over all paths.     

Determination of flow velocity vector based on Doppler shift and spectrum broadening with optical coherence tomography

We describe a technique that uses Doppler optical coherence tomography to estimate accurately the scattering fluid-flow velocity without a priori knowledge of the Doppler angle. Our technique is based on the combined use of the Doppler shift on the interference signal and the Doppler spectrum broadening caused by the particles moving across the probe beam. It is shown that the estimated values of the Doppler angle and average fluid velocity from the experiments agree well with the preset values.