Self-aligning lidar for the continuous monitoring of the atmosphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4758-4764

  Fiorani, Luca ^a,b   Armenante, Mario ^a   Capobianco, Roberta ^a   Spinelli, Nicola ^a   Wang, Xuan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Universitá Federico II ^*  (Italy)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 0346402355     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004758     Document Type: Article

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