Fiber-based lidar for atmospheric water-vapor measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3417-3427

  Little, Liesl M ^a,b   Papen, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER-VAPOR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000150968     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003417     Document Type: Article

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