Coherent laser radar remote sensing
Abstract
This report summarizes the technical effort accomplished in FY83 on a program to make range-resolved measurements of chemical agents or pollutants distributed within the atmosphere. A description of the modified receiver electronics which permit rapid accumulation of a very large number of signal returns is described. The performance of a rapidly tunable CO2 laser is discussed. Theoretical analyses of coherent laser radar systems including mixing efficiencies, speckle effects, and waveform performance are reported.
- Publication:
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Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Report
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983mit..reptR....H
- Keywords:
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- Air Pollution;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Coherent Radar;
- Contaminants;
- Laser Applications;
- Optical Radar;
- Remote Sensing;
- Remote Sensors;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Aerosols;
- Analysis (Mathematics);
- Backscattering;
- Contamination;
- Distance;
- Efficiency;
- Frequencies;
- Mixing;
- Waveforms;
- Lasers and Masers