Study on Echo Time-Delay Estimation of Pulsed Laser Fuze

Pulse laser range detector is to measure the distance by estimating the time delay between the emitting pulse and echo pulse.In this paper,a mathematical model for the target echo signal of laser fuze has been established;in accordance with this model,the formulas for echo time-delay estimation and for amplitude estimation based on least squares criterion have been deduced.It is argued and simulated that the resolution of echo time-delay estimation could be improved through multi-reference correlation approach.Experiments illustrate that the approach enables pulsed laser fuze to perform high-precision ranging under a low signal-to-noise ratio condition.