title: Optical autodyne detection: theory and experiment.
abstract: Optical autodyne detection is a direct detection procedure for measuring relative Doppler frequency shifts using a laser transceiver. A theoretical study of the carrier-to-noise ratio and signal-to-noise ratio for an autodyne transceiver is presented. Experimental results, obtained with a cw autodyne transceiver, are reported. The relative merits of optical autodyne vs optical heterodyne detection are discussed.
authors.forename: D U
authors.initials: DU
authors.lastname: Fluckiger
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Keyes
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Shapiro