激光雷达在军事中的应用

本文简要介绍激光雷达的特点、激光雷达探测的基本物理原理及其在军事领域的应用现状。     

相干激光雷达接收机混频效率

相干激光雷达接收机中,信号光为平面光经衍射形成的艾里斑,本振光为基模高斯光束,在文章中对两者在探测器光敏面上混频的混频效率进行了讨论。对于给定的信号光,若满足fλd21,那么高斯光束束腰半径取0.781fλ/d、探测器半径取1.130fλ/d时获得最大混频效率0.834,这一最佳混频可以通过离焦式扩束望远镜调节高斯光束束腰半径的大小与位置来实现。     

Comparison of indigenously developed micro pulse polarization lidar with EZ lidar profiles

A Micro Pulse Polarization LIDAR (MPPL) has been designed and developed for aerosol and cloud studies at National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India (28° 35′ N, 77° 12′E) using a low-energy pico-second pulsed Nd:YAG laser at 532 nm and single PMT detector. This has been used for detecting depolarization characteristics with back-scatter coefficient of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The back-scattered signals are detected at the emitted wavelength with co-polarization and cross-polarization discrimination with a mirror on stepper motor for aerosols and cloud. Data are obtained by MPPL and are inter-compared with a well-established commercial Leosphere made EZ LIDAR, industry standard at the same site and time, and the results are found to be in good agreement. In the present communication the back-scattered coefficient, aerosols optical depth, depolarization ratio etc. obtained using MPPL & EZ LIDAR are discussed in detail.     

Analysis of systematic errors of lidar gas analysis in the atmosphere by the differential absorption lidar method

In the present work, systematic errors of lidar gas analysis in the atmosphere by the differential absorption lidar method in the near-and middle-IR ranges of the spectrum are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the systematic errors depend on many factors, including the meteorological parameters and concentrations of the examined gases along the sensing path, instability of the spectral parameters of laser radiation lines, shift of the absorption line centers caused by the air pressure, Doppler broadening of backscattered signals, and other sources of errors. Methods of error minimization in reconstructing lidar profiles of the examined atmospheric gas concentrations are suggested. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 68–73, June, 2008.     

Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence is nothing like Kolmogorov turbulence in the self-similar regime

An increasing number of numerical simulations and experiments describing the turbulent spectrum of Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing layers came to light over the past few years. Results reported in recent studies allow to rule out a Kolmogorov-like turbulence as a mechanism acting on a self-similar RT turbulent mixing layer. A different mechanism is presented, which complies with both numerical and experimental results and relates RT flow to other buoyant flows.     

Nodal lines in turbulence

The statistics of the nodal lines of scalar fields in two-dimensional (2d) turbulence is found to be conformal invariant and equivalent to that of cluster boundaries in critical phenomena. That allows for a rich variety of exact analytic results, first time in turbulence studies. In particular, the statistics of zero-vorticity lines in Navier-Stokes turbulence is found to be equivalent to that of critical percolation. The statistics of the zero-temperature lines in surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) turbulence is found to be equivalent to that of the isolines of a Gaussian (free) field.     

Dynamic multiscaling in turbulence

We give an overview of the progress that has been made in recent years in understanding dynamic multiscaling in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence and related problems. We emphasise the similarity of this problem with the dynamic scaling of time-dependent correlation functions in the vicinity of a critical point in, e.g., a spin system. The universality of dynamic-multiscaling exponents in fluid turbulence is explored by detailed simulations of the GOY shell model for fluid turbulence.     

Fractal structures in turbulence

We present a qualitative overview of our work on the issue of fractal structures in turbulence. We explain why fully developed turbulence is not space filling and describe how its fractal dimension can be estimated theoretically. The implications of the fractal nature of turbulence on transport processes like turbulent diffusion and on fluctuations in passive scalars are discussed. The latter affect wave propagation in turbulent media and these effects are examined. In addition we consider clouds in the atmosphere which are claimed to have fractal perimeters (or surfaces) and outline the physical reasons for this phenomenon. The fractal dimension of clouds is tied to the theory of turbulent diffusion and is computed theoretically. Indications of the road ahead are given.     

Towards a supercontinuum-based infrared lidar

Lidar signals were obtained for the first time in the near-infrared using the supercontinuum generated by the terawatt femtosecond laser of the Teramobile system. A signal up to 4 km in altitude, in the band 1–1.7 m, was collected using a 2 m astronomical telescope. We observed a 10-fold enhancement of the infrared signal backscattered from the atmosphere compared with that expected using a previously measured laboratory spectrum. This suggests a more efficient frequency conversion into the infrared (typically 7% into the 1–1.5 m band) under long-distance propagation conditions. PACS 42.65.Jx; 42.68.Wt; 42.65.Ky     

Velocity statistics distinguish quantum turbulence from classical turbulence

By analyzing trajectories of solid hydrogen tracers, we find that the distributions of velocity in decaying quantum turbulence in superfluid 4He are strongly non-Gaussian with 1/v(3) power-law tails. These features differ from the near-Gaussian statistics of homogenous and isotropic turbulence of classical fluids. We examine the dynamics of many events of reconnection between quantized vortices and show by simple scaling arguments that they produce the observed power-law tails.     

Acoustic turbulence

Inertial range spectra of sound modes in several space dimensions are determined theoretically and by numerical experiments. The latter indicate a spectrum of shock waves as predicted by Kadomtsev and Petviashvili (1973).     

Affine turbulence

We present a generalization of the multiplicative model for velocity increments involving an affine process. The consequences on the shape of the probability distribution functions for the velocity increments are explored, and shown to be better compatible with the existence of a scale variation of the skewness. Received 29 March 1999 and Received in final form 14 September 1999     

A comparison method for spaceborne and ground-based lidar and its application to the CALIPSO lidar

A method is proposed to aid in the comparison of spaceborne lidar measurements with ground-based lidar measurements. The downward attenuated backscatter is constructed from ground-based lidar data, and then compared to the attenuated backscatter measured by spaceborne lidar. To test the accuracy of the method, sensitivity analysis is performed. This method is applied to compare the measurements between the CALIPSO lidar and ground-based lidar at Hampton University. The comparison results show this method is a feasible and reasonable approach for spaceborne lidar validation. Moreover, it can help to retrieve aerosol optical properties.