Lidar tuning with a Na lamp

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 146-149

  Wuerker, Ralph F ^a   Wong, A Y ^a   Simon, M ^a   Fukuchi, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Lidar tuning; Na lamps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010868876     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601596     Document Type: Article

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