Profiling atmospheric water vapor using a fiber laser lidar system

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 562-567

  De Young, Russell J ^a   Barnes, Norman P ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PUMPING (LASER);

APD DETECTORS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; FRESNEL LENS; LIDAR RECEIVERS; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; WATER VAPOR PROFILE;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 76649124296     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000562     Document Type: Article

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