Simultaneous Measurement of Wind and Aerosol Backscattering in the Troposphere by High Spectral Resolution Lidar with Iodine Filter

We propose a high spectral resolution lidar system which is capable of measuring aerosol backscattering and line-of-sight wind velocity in the troposphere. An iodine vapor filter is used to separate the aerosol and Rayleigh scattering components as well as to discriminate the Doppler shift frequency. The performance of the lidar system is estimated with reasonable parameters. The error of horizontal wind velocity below an altitude of 6 km is less than 0.5 m/s, and accuracy of the aerosol backscattering coefficient is better than 40% below 10 km. This system is particularly suitable for the study of aerosol transportation in the troposphere.     

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     

Development of all-solid coherent Doppler wind lidar

A 1 064-nm pulsed coherent Doppler lidar (CDL) prototype is developed to measure short range wind speed in the lower altitude troposphere layer. The CDL system adopts an injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser with the pulse duration of 80 ns, single pulse energy of 0.5 mJ, and pulse repetition rate of 200 Hz. Speed calibration experiments are implemented to obtain a speed accuracy of 0.3 m/s using a hard target. Data analysis results show that the CDL system can obtain a line-of-sight wind velocity at a range of 30 to 500 m with the range resolution of 40 m and 38 pulses accumulation.     

Precursor experiment for an active true airspeed sensor

The feasibility of an active optical true airspeed sensor was demonstrated with a coherent short-range Doppler lidar. Even at the long wavelength of 10.6 mum , aerosol events at the high altitude of 12, 000 m were measured. A comparison of the line-of-sight velocity obtained by lidar measurements with a conventional five-hole probe on an aircraft showed an excellent coincidence in the average value, although the lidar detected turbulence effects much more sensitively.     

Ultraviolet Rayleigh Lidar for Wind and Temperature Measurements

A new method of simultaneous remote sensing of atmospheric wind and temperature by a ultraviolet Rayleigh lidar is described. This technique uses two narrowband filters located at either side of the wings of the Rayleigh backscatter spectrum to analyze Rayleigh backscattering signals. These filters are selected to be greatly sensitive to both velocity and temperature. By measuring the ratio and the sum of the two normalized filtered signals, the line-of-sight wind velocity and temperature profiles can be retrieved. A lidar system is proposed for the wind velocity and temperature measurements in the middle atmosphere, and the simulation results show that the accuracies of velocity and temperature are about 1 m/s and 2 K at the height of 30 km, respectively. The influence of aerosol component has been estimated for clear weather conditions, and with an uncertainty of aerosol component of 15% the errors are about 0.1 m/s and 2 K above the troposphere, respectively.     

Linearity Requirement for a Linear Frequency Modulation Lidar

The nonlinear of the frequency modulation in linear frequency modulation (LFM) lidar seriously affects the accuracy of range and velocity. We describe the influence of nonlinear of the frequency modulation on the accuracy. The frequency-domain analysis of heterodyne signal is used to deduce the linearity requirement for LFM 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。     

连续模式相干测风激光雷达性能优化分析及实验研究

基于风场探测的需求,采用1550 nm波长连续激光种子源搭建了一套全光纤结构多普勒相干测风雷达系统.从雷达方程出发,对连续激光相干雷达载噪比方程和不同雷达收发望远镜聚焦位置下风速合成权重进行了分析.针对测风雷达要求设计了5～200 m的变焦激光收发望远镜模块.扩束系统采用伽利略折射式结构,发射光束准直下扩束比为23,光...     

Polarization Structure of Multiply Scattered Background Components of Lidar Signals Reflected from Cloud Ice Crystals

A numerical experiment is performed to obtain the polarization characteristics of signals of a monostatic lidar intended for homogeneous cloud sensing. It is assumed that clouds consist of monodisperse randomly-oriented hexagonal ice crystals. To solve the vector radiative transfer equation, the light scattering phase matrices, preliminary calculated with the help of the beam splitting technique, are used as input data. The formation of the polarization structure of multiply scattered background signal component is studied for different scattering orders depending on crystal shapes and sizes and optical and geometrical conditions of the experiment.     

New technique to simulate angular patterns of polarized signals from multiply scattering media in MFOV and CCD lidars

We present a semi-analytical approach to determine angular patterns of a polarized intensity that form lidar signals from multiply scattering media registered by a monostatic multiple-field-of-view receiver or CCD camera for any polarization state of incident light and any analyzer state at a receiver. Multiply scattering media with a highly forward elongated phase functions are considered. The model of lidar signal formation includes the single near-backscattering and small-angle multiple scattering of light. The developed approach allows computation and analysis of polarized images, including the Mueller matrix images, formed by the laser light backscattered by multiply scattering media, for example, from atmospheric clouds, ocean waters, tissue, etc.     

Mie-Rayleigh Doppler Wind Lidar with Two Double-edge Interferometers

The Mie-Rayleigh direct detection Doppler lidar (DDDL) with two double-edge etalons is presented. Fabry-Perot (F-P) etalon is used as the spectral analyzer for Doppler measurement formthe aerosol and molecule backscattered signals. The aerosol and molecular backscattering signals are separated by a polarization isolator with less signal decrement, so this system has about same accuracy as individual Rayleigh Doppler lidar or Mie Doppler lidar system. The simulation on a proposed ground-based DDDL at 532 nm shows that the velocity error is less than 2 m/s below 8 km for a 100 m vertical resolution by Mie channel and 2m/s up to 20 km by Rayleigh channel, respectively.     

Mie-Rayleigh Doppler Wind Lidar with Two Double-edge Interferometers

1　Ｉｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎ　　Ｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｉｎｇａｃｃｕｒａｔｅａｃｔｉｖｅｒｅｍｏｔｅｓｅｎｓｏｒｓｆｏｒｇｌｏｂａｌｗｉｎｄｍｅａｓｕｒｅｍｅｎｔｈａｓｌｏｎｇｂｅｅｎａｈｉｇｈｐｒｉｏｒｉｔｙｎｅｅｄｆｏｒｂｏｔｈｃｌｉｍａｔｅｓｔｕｄｉｅｓａｎｄｗｅａｔｈｅｒｐｒｅｄｉｃｔｉｏｎ[1] .Ｓｏｆａｒｍｏｓｔｏｆｔｈｅｗｉｎｄｄａｔａｃｏｍｅｆｒｏｍｔｗｏｓｏｕｒｃｅｓ:ｔｈｅｆｉｒｓｔｓｏｕｒｃｅｉｓｆｒｏｍｗｅａｔｈｅｒｂａｌｌｏｏｎｓ ,ｂｕｔｔｈｅｐｒｏｂｌｅｍｉｓｔｈａｔｔｈｅｒｅａ…     

星载激光多普勒测风雷达鉴频系统仿真(Ⅱ):基于Fabry-Perot标准具的Rayleigh通道大气风速反演研究

基于星载激光多普勒测风雷达工作原理,构建了基于连续双通道Fabry-Perot(F-P)标准具的鉴频仿真系统,仿真研究了Rayleigh通道大气风速反演算法,系统分析了Rayleigh-Brillouin效应和Mie干扰信号对Rayleigh通道反演大气视线(LOS)风速的影响,并利用无线电探空数据集仿真结果统计分析了Rayleigh通道大气水平视线(HLOS)风速反演误差.结果表明,基于连续双通道F-P标准具的Rayleigh通道可反演中高层大气风速;Rayleigh-Brillouin效应和Mie干扰信号影响Rayleigh通道LOS风速反演精度;Rayleigh通道风速反演对温度精度要求最高,在晴空条件下可忽略Mie干扰信号的影响;不考虑Brillouin效应时,高度2 km以下Rayleigh通道无法反演HLOS风速,高度2 km以上Rayleigh通道反演的HLOS风速误差小于0.4 m·s-1,风速标准差在1—4 m·s-1之间;同Mie通道一样,气溶胶和云的分布影响Rayleigh通道HLOS风速反演误差.研究结果对发展星载激光雷达测风技术具有重要参考意义.     

基于尾流激光雷达的能量对消式大动态接收技术

水下尾流激光雷达在近场就已开始与水体发生了激光的多次散射, 很容易导致接收系统因动态范围不够而饱和, 其反向恢复时间一般长达10² ns级, 影响远场信号接收.本文针对此问题分析了激光水体后向光散射强度衰减规律, 自主研发了一种能量对消式水下激光雷达前端接收系统. 该系统通过在近场强信号尖峰上叠加一个高速反向瞬态对消电流抑制接收系统饱和, 之后将两信号融合, 还原真实回波信号波形.分析了技术难点并给出了解决方案, 讨论了瞬态对消电流的生成时刻对强度的影响规律.经实测与分析, 该系统对消电流脉宽为5 ns, 幅度控制步进为122 nA, 幅度调节范围为135---360 μA, 成功实现了对近场强散射的抑制. 该系统完全可以满足尾流激光雷达大动态探测的需要.     

Performance comparison of Fabry–Perot and Mach–Zehnder interferometers for molecular Doppler lidar based on fringe-imaging technique

Fringe-imaging Fabry–Perot interferometer (FIFPI) and fringe-imaging Mach–Zehnder interferometer (FIMZI) used as frequency discriminator for incoherent molecular Doppler lidar were analyzed, respectively. For a pure molecular backscattered signal, performances (wind measurement sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio) of both FIFPI and FIMZI systems were simulated based on the U.S. standard atmospheric model. Comparisons of two systems were made under the same emitting and receiving parameters with certain wind speed dynamic range. Simulated results show that, though relatively lower sensitivity to Doppler shift, the single-channel FIMZI system provides a factor of 1.3 times smaller error in the horizontal wind velocity than that of FIFPI at a range of 20 km. We expect that the FIMZI frequency discriminator would provide an effective technique to improve the measurement accuracy for incoherent molecular Doppler lidar.     

Multipulse gate-delayed range gating imaging lidar

We present a technique to reconstruct a higher resolution of depth map of range gating imaging lidar by applying the delays of the gates to a typical range gating lidar system during the detection of each returned laser pulse with the encoding of the returned signal. With the consequent delays of the gate, the depth of the scene is extended accordingly. A multipulse gate-delayed range gating lidar system is designed to prove the resolution improvement from 6 to 1.5 m. The unchanged peak power of the laser, the widths of the laser pulse and the sampling period result in a simple structure of the lidar system.     

Signal enhancement of a novel multi-address coding lidar backscatters based on a combined technique of demodulation and wavelet de-noising

Multi-address coding (MAC) lidar is a novel lidar system recently developed by our laboratory. By applying a new combined technique of multi-address encoding, multiplexing and decoding, range resolution is effectively improved. In data processing, a signal enhancement method involving laser signal demodulation and wavelet de-noising in the downlink is proposed to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of raw signal and the capability of remote application. In this paper, the working mechanism of MAC lidar is introduced and the implementation of encoding and decoding is also illustrated. We focus on the signal enhancement method and provide the mathematical model and analysis of an algorithm on the basis of the combined method of demodulation and wavelet de-noising. The experimental results and analysis demonstrate that the signal enhancement approach improves the SNR of raw data. Overall, compared with conventional lidar system, MAC lidar achieves a higher resolution and better de-noising performance in long-range detection.     

Application of Geometrical Form Factor in Differential Absorption Lidar Measurement

The peak position for a lidar return signal is calculated and measured for the horizontal path with variation of the laser beam divergence angle (θ), and the inclination angle (δ) between the telescope and laser axes. This work shows that θ and δ are very important parameters to use in the design or alignment of a lidar system receiving a good lidar signal. This paper describes an experimental determination of geometrical form factors in the lidar equation. We receive the signals and determine the geometrical form factors by slope method in a homogeneous atmosphere. The differential absorption lidar equation is evaluated for the dual-pulse lidar system. A method using a geometrical form factor determined by the experiment is introduced to correct the error in C₂H₄ measurement. This method shows good correction of measurement error in lidar dual-pulse operation, especially in the short range.     

条纹技术测风激光雷达研究

使用单纵模355 nm激光作为发射光源,Fizeau干涉仪作为光谱鉴别设备,对条纹技术测风激光雷达进行了研究.对激光器频率抖动和Fizeau干涉仪光谱进行了分析,建立了条纹技术激光雷达系统,使用Fizeau干涉仪扫描的方法对系统进行了风速标定.利用研制的激光雷达系统对引入的参考光信号和大气后向散射信号进行同时测量,得到1.5 km以内的大气风速剖面.     

空间多普勒激光雷达地面散射信号分析

为了扩展空间多普勒激光雷达地面散射信号的应用范围,采用多个机载多普勒激光雷达飞行实验数据,对地面散射信号的强度、海拔高度、速度等特征进行了数据分析,并利用地面散射信号与上层大气信号强度的比值,可以等效体现地面反射率特征,即地面散射信号解算的海拔高度与数字海拔高度模型数据相吻合,两者平均值偏差小于20 m,标准偏差小于100 m;使用地面散射信号实现飞机速度校正,与使用飞机平台数据解算的结果具有较好的一致性,采用直接探测手段时,标准偏差小于1.5 m/s,采用相干探测手段时,标准偏差小于0.5 m/s,验证了利用地面散射实现空间平台速度校正的可行性。另外,针对云散射信号的存在和影响,提出了一种利用海拔高度数据比对的方法,实现云散射和地面散射的识别。