Second-generation laser firefly clusters: Improved scheme for distributed sensing in the atmosphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 984-992

  Kedar, Debbie ^a   Arnon, Shlomi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBES;

BIOFLUORESCENCE; LASER FIREFLY; MULTIACCESS INTERFERENCE (MAI); SECOND-GENERATION SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 14844325727     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000984     Document Type: Article

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