Amplified reference pulse storage for low-coherence pulsed Doppler lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 8346-8349

  Shen, Jyi Lai ^a,b   Künnemeyer, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b TUNG NAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LASER PULSES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SPEED CONTROL; WIND EFFECTS;

FIBER-OPTIC RING RESONATORS; REFERENCE BEAMS; REFERENCE PULSE STORAGE; WIND-SPEED MEASUREMENTS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 33845919834     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008346     Document Type: Article

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