• DocumentCode
    2876292
  • Title

    A 1.57μm DIAL lidar system for range resolved measurements of atmospheric CO2

  • Author

    Riris, H. ; Burris, J. ; Krainak, M. ; Sun, X. ; Abshire, J.

  • Author_Institution
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe a lidar system based on erbium doped fiber amplifiers, designed to make range resolved measurements of CO2 within the lower atmosphere at very high precision at 1571 nm.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric optics; carbon compounds; erbium; measurement by laser beam; optical fibre amplifiers; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; remote sensing by radar; CO2; DIAL lidar system; atmospheric carbon-di-oxide measurement; differential absorption optical radar; erbium doped fiber amplifier design; range resolved measurement; wavelength 1571 nm; Absorption; Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Laser feedback; Laser radar; Optical pulses; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Signal resolution; (120.0280) Remote sensing; 280.1910 DIAL, differential absorption lidar; 280.3640 Lidar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628543
  • Filename
    4628543