Article
Field demonstration of simultaneous wind and temperaturemeasurements from 5to50 km with a Na double-edge magneto-optic filter in a multi-frequency Doppler lidar
Optics Letters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
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Abstract
We report the first (to our knowledge) field demonstration of simultaneous wind and temperature measurements with a Na double-edge magneto-optic filter implemented in the receiver of a three-frequency Na Doppler lidar. Reliable winds and temperatures were obtained in the altitude range of 10-45 km with 1 km resolution and 60 min integration under the conditions of 0.4 W lidar power and 75 cm telescope aperture. This edge filter with a multi-frequency lidar concept can be applied to other direct-detection Doppler lidars for profiling both wind and temperature simultaneously from the lower to the upper atmosphere.
Citation Information
Huang W., X. Chu, Johannes Wiig, Bo Tan, Chihoko Yamashita, T. Yuan, J. Yue, S. D. Harrell, C.-Y. She, B. P.
Williams, J. S. Friedman, and R. M. Hardesty, "Field demonstration of simultaneous wind and temperature
measurements from 5to50 km with a Na double-edge magneto-optic filter in a multi-frequency Doppler lidar,"
Opt. Lett. 34, 1552-1554 (2009)
Published by the Optical Society of America in Optics Letters. Publisher PDF available for download through link above.