Design and development of the SPARCLE coherent lidar transceiver

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3707, Issue , 1999, Pages 256-267

  Phillips, Mark W ^a   Schnal, Dane L ^a   Hale, Charley P ^a   D'Epagnier, David M ^a   Yu, Jirong ^b   Singh, Upendra N ^b   Menzies, Robert T ^c  

^a Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent; Doppler; Global wind measurement; Lidar; Space based; SPARCLE

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; NASA; RADAR; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TRANSCEIVERS;

COHERENT; DOPPLER; GLOBAL WINDS; SPACE-BASED; SPARCLE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0003826626     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.351379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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