High-energy 2 μm Doppler lidar for wind measurements

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Koch, Grady J ^a   Beyon, Jeffrey Y ^b   Barnes, Bruce W ^a   Petros, Mulugeta ^a   Yu, Jirong ^c   Amzajerdian, Farzin ^c   Kavaya, Michael J ^c   Singh, Upendra N ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lasers; Lidar; Meteorology; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

DUAL-BALANCED CONFIGURATION; HIGHER OUTPUT ENERGY; LASER TRANSMITTERS;

AEROSOLS; DOPPLER EFFECT; METEOROLOGY; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS; WIND EFFECTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 36749064390     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2802584     Document Type: Article

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