Design of a lidar receiver with fiber-optic output

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4278-4284

  Jenness, James R ^a   Lysak, Daniel B ^a   Philbrick, C Russell ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric optics; Lidar; Optical instruments; Remote sensing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

LIDAR;

EID: 0031396082     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004278     Document Type: Article

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