Performance evaluation of a dual fringe-imaging Michelson interferometer for air parameter measurements with a 355 nm Rayleigh-Mie lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2321-2332

  Cézard, Nicolas ^a   Dolfi Bouteyre, Agnés ^a   Huignard, Jean Pierre ^b   Flamant, Pierre H ^c  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RADAR; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PARAMETER MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SCATTERING; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; SCATTERING RATIO; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 65349157044     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002321     Document Type: Article

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