With the blooming of artificial intelligence technology, the distant sensing systems with an agile deployment, a high refreshing rate and a high precision are demanded to map the fast-changing environment in terms of 3D point cloud for autonomous vehicles and smart home products. Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW), as a coherent detection method, shows a high precision, a high selectivity against ambient light, the intrinsic capability in speed sensing and eye-safety. However, FMCW usually needs a discrete Fourier transform to resolve the distance from the beating between the transmitted and received signals, leading to limitation on the acquisition rate and higher requirement in the frequency chirping span, speed, and linearity of the FMCW laser. Here we demonstrate an electro-optic comb-enabled absolute distance ranging technology with an acquisition rate up to 10 kHz and a precision better than 100 mm. We show that real-time distance resolving can be achieved with only two adjacent interference peaks among many peaks generated over one modulation frequency chirping period, boosting the acquisition rate of LiDAR system for ambiguity-free distance measurement.
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