Development and demonstration of a high-altitude atmospheric backscatter Lidar system

Thomas M. Dolash; John Garvey; Joseph Leonelli; Mark Bradford; Lynn Rose

doi:10.1117/12.177301

3 June 1994 Development and demonstration of a high-altitude atmospheric backscatter Lidar system

Thomas M. Dolash, John Garvey, Joseph Leonelli, Mark Bradford, Lynn Rose

Proceedings Volume 2112, Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy, Lidar, and DIAL Techniques for Environmental and Industrial Measurements; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177301
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, 1993, Atlanta, GA, United States

Abstract

Battelle has designed and fabricated an upward-looking atmospheric backscatter lidar for high-altitude airborne applications. The compact, rugged system was assembled and integrated into a cupola on top of a Lear 36 aircraft to provide particle backscatter data and aerosol profile distributions of cirrus clouds occurring between 50,000 and 100,000 ft ASL. The high altitude airborne lidar system consists of a laser transmitter operating at 532 and 1064 nm simultaneously with output energy of 75 mJ at both wavelengths and a collecting telescope aperture of 10 inches in diameter. Laser backscatter energy is collected and directed via a dichroic beamsplitter to two avalanche photodetectors (APD) through narrow bandpass optical filters at 532 and 1064 nm. The outputs of the APDs are digitized by a 10-bit, 100-MHz transient digitizer before being recorded to a 1.2-Gbyte hard disk with IRIG timing for data analysis. This paper describes the lidar system design, predicted performance, and some of the operational challenges.

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Thomas M. Dolash, John Garvey, Joseph Leonelli, Mark Bradford, and Lynn Rose "Development and demonstration of a high-altitude atmospheric backscatter Lidar system", Proc. SPIE 2112, Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy, Lidar, and DIAL Techniques for Environmental and Industrial Measurements, (3 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177301

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