Holographic Raman/Rayleigh lidar for all-atmosphere thermal profiles

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4377, Issue , 2001, Pages 186-193

  Dills, Anthony N ^a   Andersen, G ^a   Knize, R J ^a  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holographic optical elements; Lidar; Raman lidar; Rayleigh lidar

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; NITROGEN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOSONDES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HOLOGRAPHIC FILTERS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0035758787     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.440107     Document Type: Article

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