> Is there anyone that has or knows about distance measurement
with a laser.

Try +"distance measurement" +laser with Google

http://www.acuityresearch.com/apnt1.html

outlines various methods

The timing may not be so much of a problem as making
a receiver to catch the reflected light, and all the associated
calibrations, compensations and fine-tunings

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