Coherent Infrared Lidar Mission and Technology Needs for Measurements of Transport and Concentration of Tropospheric Trace Species

R. V. Hess; P. Brockman; C. H. Bair; L. D. Staton; C. D. Lytle; L. M. Laughman; M. L. Kaplan

doi:10.1117/12.935896

13 December 1983 Coherent Infrared Lidar Mission and Technology Needs for Measurements of Transport and Concentration of Tropospheric Trace Species

R. V. Hess, P. Brockman, C. H. Bair, L. D. Staton, C. D. Lytle, L. M. Laughman, M. L. Kaplan

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Proceedings Volume 0415, Coherent Infrared Radar Systems and Applications II; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935896
Event: 1983 Technical Symposium East, 1983, Arlington, United States

Abstract

The science justification and the feasibility of aircraft based CO2 Doppler Lidar measurements of transport between the free troposphere and the stratosphere or the planetary boundary layer are discussed for a wide range of seasonal and geographic conditions. Ground based coherent CO2 Lidar aerosol scattering experiments using a stable ring resonator ~ 50 mJ/pulse CO2 laser with external injection locking are reported. Comparative studies of injection locked CO2 laser unstable resonators and Master Oscillator Power Amplifiers are reported for future CO2 Lidar missions with respect to requirements of pulse energy, duration/shape, frequency chirp, efficiency for heterodyne detection, and combined Doppler Lidar and DIAL missions.

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R. V. Hess, P. Brockman, C. H. Bair, L. D. Staton, C. D. Lytle, L. M. Laughman, and M. L. Kaplan "Coherent Infrared Lidar Mission and Technology Needs for Measurements of Transport and Concentration of Tropospheric Trace Species", Proc. SPIE 0415, Coherent Infrared Radar Systems and Applications II, (13 December 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.935896

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