Lidar measurements taken with a large-aperture liquid mirror. 2. sodium resonance-fluorescence system

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2393-2400

  Argall, P S ^a   Vassiliev, O N ^a   Sica, R J ^a   Mwangi, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; MIRRORS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RESONANCE; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

THERMOSPHERE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000709179     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002393     Document Type: Article

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