Micropulse water vapor differential absorption lidar: Transmitter design and performance

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 25137-25151

  Nehrir, Amin R ^a   Repasky, Kevin S ^a   Carlsten, John L ^b  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VOLUME; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; EXTERNAL-CAVITY DIODE LASER; FIBER OPTIC SWITCHES; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; LASER PERFORMANCE; LASER SHOTS; LASER TRANSMITTERS; OFFLINE; PEAK POWER; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL PURITY; SPECTRAL SWITCHING; THIRD GENERATION; TRANSMITTER DESIGN; TUNABILITIES;

OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 84868217556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025137     Document Type: Article

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