Remote sensing with intense filaments enhanced by adaptive optics

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 701-713

  Daigle, J F ^a   Kamali, Y ^a   Chateauneuf M ^b   Tremblay, G ^c   Theberge F ^b   Dubois, J ^b   Roy, G ^b   Chin, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^c AEREX avionique inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTIC SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; AQUEOUS AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BEAM EXPANDERS; BEAM EXPANSION; CLOSED-LOOP ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DETECTION SYSTEM; FILAMENTATION; GASEOUS MIXTURE; LIDAR EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST LASER; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS;

AEROSOLS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FILAMENTS (LAMP); HYDROCARBONS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; WAVEFRONTS;

LEAD;

EID: 70350474296     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-009-3713-7     Document Type: Article

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