Analyzing the efficiency of a practical heterodyne lidar in the turbulent atmosphere: Telescope parameters

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2041-2046

  Belmonte, Aniceto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; HETERODYNING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL OPTICS; TELESCOPES;

COHERENT LOSS; HETERODYNE LIDAR; LIDAR SIGNALS; REFRACTIVE-TURBULENCE EFFECTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 2942744487     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002041     Document Type: Article

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