Compact all-fiber pulsed coherent Doppler lidar system for wind sensing

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1953-1962

  Kameyama, S ^a   Ando, T ^a   Asaka, K ^a   Hirano, Y ^a   Wadaka, S ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DOPPLER EFFECT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; WIND EFFECTS;

DETECTION PROBABILITY; DOPPLER LIDAR SYSTEM; WIND SENSING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 34248173960     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001953     Document Type: Article

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