Development of a widely tunable amplified diode laser differential absorption lidar for profiling atmospheric water vapor

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Obland, Michael D ^a,b   Repasky, Kevin S ^c   Nehrir, Amin R ^c   Carlsten, John L ^a   Shaw, Joseph A ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Lidar; Remote sensing; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DIODE AMPLIFIERS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSE REPETITION RATE; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TRANSMITTERS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; EXTERNAL-CAVITY DIODE LASER; LOW-POWER SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL PURITY; TAPERED AMPLIFIER; WATER VAPOR ABSORPTION LINES; WATER VAPOR PROFILE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 80054987102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3383156     Document Type: Article

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