Research on time-stretched photon Doppler velocimetry

In the transient high-speed velocity measurement scene, the target accelerates to several-tens of km/s in tens of ns. Therefore, the Doppler frequency shift can reach GHz or even hundreds of GHz. The velocity measurement range of photon Doppler velocimetry was limited by the current electrical digital to analog conversion technology. The time-stretched photon Doppler velocimetry used the time-stretched characteristic of femtosecond laser to reduce the signal frequency in the optical domain, which reduced the pressure of photoelectric signal detector and electrical digital-to-analog conversion device. An improved time-stretched photon Doppler velocimetry system was proposed in this paper. The femtosecond pulse was fully widened and spread over the whole time domain through the first stage dispersion fiber, in order to avoid the sampling interruption of velocity signal; In signal demodulation, error compensation algorithm was used to compensate the frequency shift signal, which reduced the system error caused by displacement and increased the effective recording time. Nanosecond laser was used to drive the aluminum film to produce high-speed flyer in the experiment, and the experimental results of the paper speed system were tested in the recording time of 1.2 µs. The repetition frequency 50 MHz femtosecond laser was used in the experiment. The first and second stage dispersion devices used 200 km and 100 km single-mode fiber, forming a scale factor of 2/3. In the end, the experiment showed that the Doppler shift signal of 3.6 GHz was reduced to 2.4 GHz, which was compared with the photon Doppler velocimetry system, and the experimental error was less than 5%. The system will be able to apply velocity measurement under dynamic high pressure technology loading flyer scene, and provides new measures for transient high-speed measurement area.