Numerical simulation of the effect of refractive turbulence on coherent lidar return statistics in the atmosphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5403-5414

  Banakh, Viktor A ^a   Smalikho, Igor N ^a   Werner, Christian ^b  

^a V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BACKSCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL OPTICS; TURBULENCE;

REFRACTIVE TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0005713030     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005403     Document Type: Article

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