Seed laser frequency stabilization for Doppler wind lidar

We demonstrate a tunable wavelength-locked seed laser source with high-frequency stability to realize the precise measurements of global atmospheric wind field. An Nd:YAG laser at 1 064 nm is used as the master laser (ML). Its frequency is locked to a confocal Fabry-Perot interferometer by using the Pound-Drever- Hall method, which ensures the peak-to-peak value of its frequency drifts less than 180 kHz over 2 h. Another Nd:YAG laser at 1 064 nm, as the slave laser, is offset-locked to the above ML using optical phase locked loop, retaining virtually the same absolute frequency stability as the ML. The tunable ranges of the frequency differences between two lasers are up to 3 GHz, and the tuning step length was an arbitrary integral multiple of 200 kHz. The researched seed laser source is compact and robust, which can well satisfy the requirement of the Doppler wind lidar.     

Seed injection and frequency-locked Nd:YAG laser for direct detection wind lidar

The single longitudinal mode operation and frequency stability are essential for the laser transmitter used in the Doppler lidar. We devise a seed injection, frequency tunable and locked Q-switched Nd:YAG laser for the direct detection Doppler lidar. By implementation of the dual-wavelength seed laser and iodine-based PID frequency-locking technique, the frequency-stabilized seed laser is robust to interference and can be locked within 200 kHz for 3 h. The stable output of single longitudinal mode of the frequency-doubled pulsed laser makes it possible to achieve operational wind measurement.     

Single-frequency polarized eye-safe all-fiber laser with peak power over kilowatt

An all-fiber, single-frequency, linearly polarized, high peak-power, pulsed laser at 1,540 nm for Doppler wind lidar is presented. This laser is composed of a single-frequency, narrow-linewidth external cavity diode laser, and multistage fiber amplifiers. A peak power of 1.08 kW and a pulse width of 500 ns at 10 kHz repetition rate are achieved, which is the highest peak power with a linewidth of 800 kHz in erbium-doped silica fiber to our knowledge. The beam quality of M ² < 1.3 and a polarization extinction ratio over 16 dB are obtained. This laser will be employed in a compact long-range coherent Doppler wind lidar.     

基于法布里-珀罗标准具的532 nm多普勒测风激光雷达系统设计和分析

 设计了采用532 nm 种子注入稳频钇铝石榴石（YAG）激光器作为辐射源的基于四通道法布里-珀罗标准具的瑞利和米散射测风激光雷达系统。介绍了激光雷达的多普勒测量基本原理;给出了雷达系统的主要参数,重点对基于分子后向散射信号的外侧双通道标准具的带宽、自由谱间距、峰值间距等指标进行了详细设计与分析,确定了内侧双通道标准具参数;对全系统速度灵敏度、信噪比与探测距离的关系进行了理论模拟。结果表明,可以实现从边界层至对流层高低空一体化探测。     

瑞利多普勒测风激光雷达的频率标定方法

频率标定是瑞利测风激光雷达的关键技术。瑞利测风激光雷达中,通过改变压电陶瓷管的电压实现连续调谐F-P标准具腔长,使出射激光频率处于双边缘透过率曲线的交点处。在连续调谐时,由于压电陶瓷管的磁滞效应引起腔长调谐非线性,从而导致系统误差。分析了该误差的原因及特性,提出了静态软件补偿和动态调频跟踪相结合的频率标定方法。若激光出射频率相对F-P标准具漂移小于100 MHz时,在数据反演时补偿该频率偏差;若相对频率漂移大于100 MHz时,将F-P标准具先退回预设腔长以下,通过逐步增加电压的方式,重新实现频率锁定,保证锁定过程处在磁滞回线的电压上升段,避免了磁滞效应引起的误差。多普勒激光雷达与无线电探空仪的两组对比实验中,在15~30km高度,风速最大偏差6.22m/s,平均偏差1.12m/s。     

多纵模激光F-P标准具双边缘测风可行性分析

讨论采用多纵模激光器作探测光源用于双边缘多普勒激光雷达测风的可行性。给出了多纵模激光器谐振腔腔长与边缘滤波器F-P标准具腔长之间的关系。分析了多纵模双边缘测风的主要特性,计算灵敏度、信噪比和径向测速误差,并与单纵模测风性能进行对比。可用类似单纵模测风中动态频率跟踪技术解决多纵模激光器频率漂移问题。     

基于自制超稳定F-P腔压窄632.8nm外腔半导体激光线宽的实验研究

窄线宽激光由于其具有单色性好、稳定度高、相干长度长等优点,广泛应用于光电检测领域,包括相干通信、精密测量、光学频率标准、吸收光谱计量以及光与物质相互作用研究等.目前频率稳定的氦氖激光器线宽可以达到M Hz量级,分布反馈式(DFB)光纤激光器线宽可达kHz量级,DFB半导体激光器线宽可以达到M Hz量级,然而光栅反馈半导...     

不同波长的激光器通过法布里-珀罗腔相对于铯原子谱线的锁定

采用共焦法布里珀罗腔(CFP)作为桥梁,可以实现不在原子、分子跃迁线附近的单频激光器相对于原子、分子跃迁线的锁定,从而可以有效地抑制激光频率的漂移。在实验中通过射频频率调制光谱技术结合饱和吸收光谱(SAS)将自制852nm光栅外腔反馈半导体激光器锁定到铯6S1/2Fg=4-6P3/2Fe=4、5交叉线上,通过Pound-Drever-Hall(PDH)射频边带技术将作为桥梁的共焦法布里珀罗腔锁定在852nm激光频率上。再通过PDH方法将830nm和908nm两台远离铯原子D2线的外腔半导体激光器同时锁定在作为桥梁的共焦法布里珀罗腔上,实现了830nm和908nm两台激光器相对于铯原子跃迁线的锁定。由锁定后的误差信号估算,20s内852nm激光器相对于铯原子Fg=4-Fe=4、5交叉线的频率起伏小于±540kHz,830nm、908nm激光器相对于共焦法布里珀罗腔的频率起伏分别小于±340kHz和±60kHz,共焦法布里珀罗腔相对于852nm激光的频率起伏小于±550kHz。     

Mobile Rayleigh Doppler wind lidar based on double-edge technique

<正>We describe a mobile molecular Doppler wind lidar(DWL) based on double-edge technique for wind measurement of altitudes ranging from 10 to 40 km.A triple Fabry-Perot etalon is employed as a frequency discriminator to determine the Doppler shift proportional to the wind velocity.The lidar operates at 355 nm with a 45-cm-aperture telescope and a matching azimuth-over-elevation scanner that provides full hemispherical pointing.To guarantee wind accuracy,a single servo loop is used to monitor the outgoing laser frequency to remove inaccuracies due to the frequency drift of the laser or the etalon.The standard deviation of the outgoing laser frequency drift is 6.18 MHz and the corresponding velocity error is 1.11 m/s.The wind profiles measured by the DWL are in good agreement with the results of the wind profile radar(WPR).Evaluation is achieved by comparing at altitudes from 2 to 8 km.The relative error of horizontal wind speed is from 0.8 to 1.8 m/s in the compared ranges.The wind accuracy is less than 6 m/s at 40 km and 3 m/s at 10 km.     

Frequency jitter and spectral width of an injection-seeded Q-switched Nd:YAG laser for a Doppler wind lidar

The design of a 50 Hz single longitudinal mode, diode-pumped and frequency-tripled Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier is described, and the first measurements of output parameters are presented. The laser oscillator is injection-seeded by a tuneable monolithic Nd:YAG ring laser and frequency stabilized by minimising the Q-switch build-up time. The laser system will be an integral part of an airborne instrument demonstrator for a first satellite based Doppler wind lidar to measure vertical profiles of one component of the atmospheric wind vector. This paper focuses on the investigation of the frequency jitter and the linewidth of the laser, which are measured on a pulse-to-pulse basis. For this purpose a compact, high accuracy beat frequency monitoring system has been developed at DLR. By operating the amplifier stage at half the repetition rate (50 Hz) of the oscillator, we could reduce the frequency stability from 10 MHz (rms) to 1.3 MHz (rms) (over a 14 s period). We have determined a mean linewidth of 15 MHz (FWHM) at 1064 nm. These measured laser parameters enable wind velocity measurements in the atmosphere (0–15 km) at an accuracy of 1 to 2 m/s. PACS 42.55.Xi; 42.60.Lh; 42.68.Wt     

Analysis of measurement error of wind lidar caused by propagation properties of Gaussian beam

The Fabry–Perot Etalon (FPE) is widely used in Doppler wind lidar as frequency discriminator and its performance is certainly affected by the propagation properties of Gaussian beam. The divergence angle of lidar returns affected by the quality factor M² and magnification of beam expander (MBE) of outgoing laser is firstly discussed. Also, the corresponding sensitivity of system on wind velocity is analyzed. The numerical results show that the divergence angle of lidar returns and FPE transmission varied with height, the resulting sensitivity of system is decreased and the wind velocity error is relatively steady in the far field. Consequently, for the wind lidar using FPE as frequency discriminator, it is supposed that the outgoing laser with both lower beam quality factor M² and higher MBE are requested, in particularly, the system calibration due to FPE instability must be considered in the near field.     

Wideband and high frequency stabilization of an injection-locked Nd:YAG laser to a high-finesse Fabry Perot cavity

High frequency stabilization of a 2.2-W injection-locked laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser to a high-finesse optical cavity has been realized by frequency control of the master laser. With the help of an external electro-optical modulator, the feedback bandwidth was extended to 1 MHz and the frequency noise relative to the reference cavity was suppressed to 3 x 10(-4) Hz/Hz(1/2) below 1 kHz. This feedback laser system is an ideal laser source for gravitational wave detectors, which require both ultralow frequency noise and high output power.     

星载激光多普勒测风雷达鉴频系统仿真(I):基于Fizeau干涉仪的Mie通道大气风速反演研究

研究了星载激光多普勒测风雷达系统结构,构建了基于Fizeau干涉仪的鉴频仿真系统,仿真研究了Mie通道风速反演算法,并利用无线电探空数据集仿真结果统计分析了Mie通道大气水平视线(HLOS)风速反演误差.仿真和统计结果表明,基于Fizeau干涉仪的Mie通道可反演低对流层大气风速;低对流层HLOS风速误差和标准差分别小于1 m·s-1和2 m·s-1;气溶胶和云的分布影响星载激光多普勒雷达测风误差,可使风速最大偏差增大一倍.     

Accuracy Analysis of the Fabry–Perot Etalon Based Doppler Wind Lidar

A direct detection Doppler wind lidar with the dual Fabry–Perot technique has been built in Hefei, China, and the system is described in this paper. A dual, air-spaced Fabry–Perot etalon is designed as the frequency discriminator and the transmission characteristics are measured with a stabilized cw laser and a pulse laser. The experimental data are found to be in agreement with the designed parameters. The Doppler shift is measured by taking the ratio of the transmitted intensities from the dual etalon. Analysis of the accuracy of Doppler measurement is made by considering the factors of the number of iterations in converting the measured ratio to the Doppler shift, the laser intensity fluctuation and the signal-to-noise ratio. In the sufficient signal-to-noise ratio the velocity accuracy of the Doppler lidar system is estimated to be better than 0.5 m/s.     

Double-edge molecular measurement of lidar wind profiles at 355 nm

We built a direct-detection Doppler lidar based on the double-edge molecular technique and made the what we believe to be the first molecular-based wind measurements using the eye-safe 355-nm wavelength. Three etalon bandpasses are obtained with step etalons on a single pair of etalon plates. We eliminate long-term frequency drift of the laser and the capacitively stabilized etalon by locking the etalon to the laser frequency. We use a low-angle design to avoid polarization effects. Wind measurements of 1-2-m /s accuracy are obtained to 10-km altitude with 5 mJ of laser energy, a 750-s integration, and a 25-cm telescope. Good agreement is obtained between lidar and rawinsonde measurements.     

Mach-Zehnder干涉仪条纹成像多普勒激光雷达风速反演及视场展宽技术

相对于传统多普勒鉴频器Fabry-Perot干涉仪, Mach-Zehnder干涉仪(MZI)具有透过率高、直线条纹易于探测、可进行视场展宽等优点. 本文设计了基于条纹成像MZI的非相干多普勒测风激光雷达系统, 构建了风速反演的数学模型, 利用MZI视场展宽技术优化了激光雷达系统的性能. 数值仿真实现了MZI鉴频系统干涉条纹图样的理想输出, 采用SineSqr函数拟合法获取了高精度的多普勒频移前后干涉条纹的移动距离, 并通过视场补偿减小了入射角对MZI光程差的影响, 从而实现视场展宽. 结果表明: 采用SineSqr函数拟合法可获得在±100 m·s^-1的径向风速范围内<0.45 m·s^-1的风速误差, 克服了条纹重心法反演风速不稳定性的缺点; 视场展宽技术在不降低鉴频性能的情况下, 能最大补偿1°的视场角. MZI条纹成像多普勒激光雷达应用技术的探讨将为中高层大气风速激光雷达测量系统的实际开发奠定良好的基础. 关键词： 激光雷达 条纹成像Mach-Zehnder干涉仪 风速反演 视场补偿     

光谱稳定性对直接探测多普勒测风激光雷达的影响研究

从种子注入固体激光器的不稳定和多普勒频移检测干涉仪的光谱漂移出发,模拟和分析其对基于双边缘探测技术的直接探测多普勒激光雷达风速测量准确度的影响. 模拟结果显示,在5 min积分时间的30 000个脉冲内,如果达到风速准确度1 m/s,要求激光器出现多纵模的脉冲不能超过总脉冲个数的0.06％.在干涉仪光谱稳定方面,使用两级温控可以将干涉仪温度控制在±0.002℃,对应风速误差为±0.226 m/s.同时提出通过监视种子注入过程中的脉冲建立时间和干涉仪温度,可以在数据反演时,消除激光频率跳动和干涉仪光谱漂移对风速测量准确度的影响.     

2-microm Doppler lidar transmitter with high frequency stability and low chirp

A coherent Doppler lidar system was frequency stabilized in a master-slave configuration by a phase-modulation technique. The short-term frequency stability, ~0.2 MHz rms, was maintained in a vibrational environment on a ship during a field campaign in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The long-term frequency stability was <2.6 kHz/h. Thus, in many applications, shot-to-shot frequency correction can be disregarded, which will result in increased speed and simplicity of the data-acquisition system. A frequency chirp could not be detected. These properties permit Doppler wind measurements with high efficiency and duty cycles to be made, even on airborne and spaceborne platforms.     

Improving frequency stability of laser by means of temperature-controlled Fabry-Perot cavity

The frequency stability of an all-solid-state Nd:YVO4 laser is significantly improved by means of a specially designed Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometer used for the frequency standard in the frequency-stabilizing system. The temperature of the F-P cavity is accurately controlled by a set of thermoelectric cooler (TEC) modules attached on th ody of the cavity and the electronic feedback circuit. We find that the long-term unidirectional frequency shift of the output laser, resulting from the slow increase of the cavity length under the effect of the temperature integration on the cavity body, is essentially eliminated. The frequency stability of the output laser with the power of 530 mW is better than ±200 kHz in 1 minute and ±2.3 MHz in 40 minutes, respectively. The fluctuation of output power is smaller than ±0.5% over one hour.     

米散射多普勒激光雷达性能改进

介绍了自行研制的米散射多普勒激光雷达的系统结构。针对系统存在的问题,对接收机子系统、工作时序、扫描方式等方面作了改造。实验结果表明:改造后系统光学鉴频器的频谱稳定性提高了2.8倍;消除了系统近距离的探测盲区;在0~2.5 km的高度范围内,当垂直距离分辨力为21.2 m、脉冲累积数为9 000发时,改造后的米散射多普勒激光雷达系统连续30 min测量的水平风速大小和方向的标准偏差的最大值分别小于1 m/s和18.3°,平均值分别小于0.43 m/s和7.7°;与探空仪的风场对比测量结果吻合得很好;当每个径向脉冲累积数为1 000发时,采用四波束扫描获得的2 km以下东西方向径向风速的相关系数为0.99,偏差为-0.038 m/s,标准偏差为1.34 m/s。