Four-element receiver for pulsed 10-μm heterodyne Doppler lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2441-2448

  Favreau, Xavier ^a,b   Delaval, Arnaud ^a   Flamant, Pierre H ^a   Dabas, Alain ^c   Delville, Patricia ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES DU BOUCHET   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COHERENT LIGHT; HETERODYNING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0001125342     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002441     Document Type: Article

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