Night Vision - Laser Range Gated Imaging

Laser Range Gated Imaging

Laser range gated imaging is another form of active night vision which utilizes a high powered pulsed light source for illumination and imaging. Range gating is a technique which controls the laser pulses in conjunction with the shutter speed of the camera's detectors. Gated imaging technology can be divided into single shot, where the detector captures the image from a single light pulse to multi-shot, where the detector integrates the light pulses from multiple shots to form an image.

One of the key advantages of this technique is the ability to perform target recognition as opposed to detection with thermal imaging.