Pulsed 1.5-μ lIDAR for axial aircraft wake vortex detection based on high-brightness large-core fiber amplifier

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 441-450

  Dolfi Bouteyre, Agnés ^a   Canat, Guillaume ^a   Valla, Matthieu ^a   Augère, Béatrice ^a   Besson, Claudine ^a   Goular, Didier ^a   Lombard, Laurent ^a   Cariou, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Durecu, Anne ^a   Fleury, Didier ^a   Bricteux, Laurent ^c   Brousmiche, Sebastien ^c   Lugan, Sébastien ^c   Macq, Benoit ^c  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b Leosphere   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heterodyne light detection and ranging (LIDAR); Large core fiber; LIDAR; Pulsed fiber amplifier; Wake vortex

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNE LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LIDAR); LARGE-CORE FIBER; LIDAR; PULSED FIBER AMPLIFIER; WAKE VORTEX;

AIRCRAFT; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; HETERODYNING; LASERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RANGE FINDING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 64549146212     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010463     Document Type: Article

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