Abstract
An infrared interferometer, originally developed for passive observation, can also be used for active coherent imaging (ACI) if we transmit a sensing wave to an object at a finite distance. We present here an ACI method, similar to that of synthetic aperture radars, with a new simple data-processing procedure.
In order to verify our ACI availability, we have investigated various effects of condition changes on processed images through a numerical simulation, and concluded that the ACI is available for high-resolution imaging of an object at ranges within several kilometers in conditions of weak or medium atmospheric turbulence.
