An all-fiber image-reject homodyne coherent Doppler wind lidar

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 25880-25894

  Abari, Cyrus F ^a   Pedersen, Anders T ^a   Mann, Jakob ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; COHERENT DOPPLER WIND LIDARS; CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; DIRECTION OF THE MOVEMENT; INDEPENDENT SIGNALS; QUADRATURE DETECTIONS; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

GLASS FIBER;

DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIND;

DOPPLER EFFECT; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WIND;

EID: 84908179473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.025880     Document Type: Article

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