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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1988),
  • paper TUL4

Coherent lidar system for wind velocity and aerosol backscatter measurements using Nd:YAG lasers

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Abstract

The rapidly developing solid-state laser technology has several promising advantages including efficiency, compactness, and long lifetime. Operation at eye-safe wavelengths and total diode-laser pumping now appear feasible. The first coherent atmospheric signals utilizing Nd:YAG lasers were observad at Stanford University.1 We are presently developing a sophisticated coherent lidar system utilizing solid-state Nd:YAG lasers operating at 1.064 μm, which is designed for measurements of atmospheric wind velocity and aerosol backscatter. The expected performance of this lidar system, when used for atmospheric wind velocity measurements, includes a velocity resolution of better than 1 m/s, a range resolution of <200 m, and a pulse repetition frequency of 0.1–2 Hz. This lidar system is currently being integrated and is expected to be operational in early 1988.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

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