Feasibility study for the simulation of beam propagation: Consideration of coherent lidar performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5426-5445

  Belmonte, Aniceto ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENCE;

REFRACTIVE TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000340181     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005426     Document Type: Article

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