Optical designs for improving performances of aerosol sensing micro-pulse lidars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4484, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-35

  Rubio, M A ^a   Reagan, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye Safety; Lidar; MPL; Overlap; Thermally corrected MPL optical design

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AEROSOL SENSING; EYE SAFETY; FIELD OF VIEW; MICROPULSE LIDARS; OVERLAP FUNCTION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0036397994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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