Field demonstration of simultaneous wind and temperaturemeasurements from 5to50 km with a Na double-edge magneto-optic filter in a multi-frequency Doppler lidar

Authors

W. Huang
X. Chu
Johannes Wiig
Bo Tan
Chihoko Yamashita
Tao Yuan, Utah State UniversityFollow
J. Yue
S. D. Harrell
C. Y. She
B. P. Williams
J. S. Friedman
R. M. Hardesty

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Optics Letters

Volume

34

Publication Date

2009

First Page

1552

Last Page

1554

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.

Comments

Published by the Optical Society of America in Optics Letters. Publisher PDF available for download through link above.

Recommended Citation

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)