Experiment Research on Echo Characteristics of Pulsed Laser Fuze in Smoke

In this paper, a measurement method based on a smoke chamber is proposed to study the backscattering characteristics of pulsed laser fuze in smoke environment. Firstly, the smoke environment was created in a chamber by burning a known amount of smoke agent whose main chemical composition is red phosphorus. Then, a pulsed laser fuze and auxiliary equipments (visibility meters, lambert reflectors, etc) were arranged to collect echo signals. Finally, a statistical method was used to analyze echo characteristics of the pulsed laser fuze. The experimental results show that the laser fuze prototype used in this experiment does not even have the ability to distinguish a target with low reflectivity (5%) from the smoke environment which was created by burning 0.3g smoke agent, and it cannot discriminate a target with high reflectivity (99%) from the smoke environment when the mass of smoke agent is larger than 4g dues to the high smoke particles concentration. The method proposed in this article provides a new feasible means for the research on anti-interference effect evaluation for smoke of pulsed laser fuze.