W-band Imaging Detector with Incoherent Illumination

A single-pixel imaging detector operating in W-band is described. It is based on a wideband receiving module using direct detecting circuitry and a transmitting unit with a pulse-modulated wideband noise source. The detector consists of a single transmit / receive channel mounted on a programmable scanner in an X-Y plane configuration. A LabView interface integrated with MatLab is employed allowing image continues reconstruction line-by-line. The application of incoherent illumination generated by a frequency-limited noise source improves image quality compared with conventional coherent sources used in active imagers. An image processing algorithm using a binary threshold level is considered with some examples of image reconstruction employing the detector.

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