A narrow-linewidth, Yb fiber-amplifier-based upper atmospheric Doppler temperature lidar

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 451-461

  Carlson, Chad G ^a   Dragic, Peter D ^a   Price, R Kirk ^b,c   Coleman, J J ^a   Swenson, Gary R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Laser radar; Optical fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER LIDARS; DOPPLER TEMPERATURES; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; GOOD BEAM QUALITIES; GROUND-BASED; HIGH-POWER; LASER RADAR; LIDAR SYSTEMS; MEASURING TEMPERATURES; NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERES; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; POWER-SCALING; PULSED OPERATIONS; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TUNING RANGES; WIND MEASUREMENTS; YB FIBERS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FIBERS; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 64549114517     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2012403     Document Type: Article

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