Complementary study of differential absorption lidar optimization in direct and heterodyne detections

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4898-4908

  Bruneau, Didier ^a   Gibert, Fabien ^b   Flamant, Pierre H ^b   Pelon, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HETERODYNING; OPTIMIZATION; RANGE FINDING;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL); RANGE-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL ERRORS; WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33749821920     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004898     Document Type: Article

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