Abstract
General lidar techniques can give information on atmospheric parameters only after the atmosphere is properly modeled. A Rayleigh-Mie scattering technique using an atomic blocking filter was proposed in 1983 for atmospheric temperature measurement.1 This technique has been shown theoretically to be much more sensitive for temperature profiling than Raman and differential absorption techniques.2 Recently, laboratory measurements of atmospheric temperature and backscatter ratio with a cw single-frequency dye laser and a Ba atomic vapor bandstop filter using the proposed technique have been made.3
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