Min range to measure time of flight

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amit_m

Joined Mar 30, 2013
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I need to know what is possible min range to measure time of flight.
My requirement is for less then 1 ft range, high accuracy is expected.
In other words what is possible solution to measure the distance of less then 1 ft range.
 

KL7AJ

Joined Nov 4, 2008
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I need to know what is possible min range to measure time of flight.
My requirement is for less then 1 ft range, high accuracy is expected.
In other words what is possible solution to measure the distance of less then 1 ft range.
Radio waves travel about 1ft/nanosecond. This means you cannot have a pulse much longer than a nanosecond to resolve this....which is one cycle of a 1GHZ signal. You will need OPTICAL methods to do this, in other words.

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