Coherent 2 μm differential absorption and wind lidar with conductively cooled laser and two-axis scanning device

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1809-1817

  Ishii, Shoken ^a   Mizutani, Kohei ^a   Fukuoka, Hirotake ^b   Ishikawa, Takayoshi ^c   Philippe, Baron ^a   Iwai, Hironari ^a   Aoki, Tetsuo ^a   Itabe, Toshikazu ^a   Sato, Atsushi ^d   Asai, Kazuhiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c Nippon Aleph Co   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OPTICAL RADAR; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; WIND;

ACCUMULATION TIME; CONDUCTIVELY COOLED; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; DIODE ARRAYS; LINE OF SIGHT; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSEWIDTHS; SCANNING DEVICE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77955629234     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001809     Document Type: Article

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