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- From: mtarrant@snuffy.wa.atk.com (Mike Tarrant)
- Subject: Re: police laser radar
- Message-ID: <By0wyC.EM6@snuffy.wa.atk.com>
- Organization: Alliant TechSystems Inc.
- References: <Nov16.225043.36767@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov18.132406.11359@news.yale.edu> <Bxx74o.2vo@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:39:47 GMT
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- In article <Bxx74o.2vo@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> orscholz@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Oliver Scholz (Turo - Backstage)) writes:
- >Ken Wilkens <wilkens%nmr@venus.ycc.yale.edu> writes:
- >
- >>Well I was thinking about putting laser diodes on the front of my car
- >>also soon as I found what wavelength the operate at. I don't think it
- >>would take much power to foul the lidar as it uses reflected power which
- >>should be alot less than you would be broadcasting. As for the legal
- >Exactly. That's why you don't need lasers. Remember, if you use a laser, you
- >have to aim directly at the speed gun to jam it effectively. Why not use
- >IR-LEDs? Their light is much more diffuse, and as you stated, the LEDs
- >should be much 'brighter' than the reflection from your car.
- >
- That probably wouldn't be effective. I'm pretty sure the laser is
- going to be modulated to allow the receiver to discriminate between
- the actual reflection, and noise in the environment. You'd have to
- modulate your LED array at the same frequency. Things get more
- complicated if the frequency changes (i.e. a chirp).
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