Portable coherent Doppler light detection and ranging for boundary-layer wind sensing

Xunbao Rui; Pan Guo; He Chen; Siying Chen; Yinchao Zhang; Meng Zhao; Yanwei Wu; Peitao Zhao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.3.034105

12 March 2019 Portable coherent Doppler light detection and ranging for boundary-layer wind sensing

Xunbao Rui, Pan Guo, He Chen, Siying Chen, Yinchao Zhang, Meng Zhao, Yanwei Wu, Peitao Zhao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 3, 034105 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.3.034105

Abstract

We present the performance of the portable wind light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system based on the 1.55-μm all-fiber technology in the atmospheric boundary layer. The LIDAR is 23.9 kg in weight, 50 cm in height, 35 cm in width, and 27 cm in depth, and the system’s local oscillator (LO) light power, pulse energy, and pulse width are adjustable. The LO light power is optimized to 3 mW, to minimize the effect of the relative intensity noise. The transmitting pulse energy is reduced to 19 μJ, to minimize the system’s power consumption while covering a detection height of >1 km in clear-sky condition. The pulse width is variable from 100 to 400 ns corresponding to a minimum resolution from 15 to 60 m. The signal-to-noise ratio performance experiment shows that this system can detect as high as 2.1 km. Field experiments compared with radiosonde and anemometer show that this system presents a detection accuracy of better than 1 m / s and 10 deg.

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Xunbao Rui, Pan Guo, He Chen, Siying Chen, Yinchao Zhang, Meng Zhao, Yanwei Wu, and Peitao Zhao "Portable coherent Doppler light detection and ranging for boundary-layer wind sensing," Optical Engineering 58(3), 034105 (12 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.3.034105

Received: 10 October 2018; Accepted: 11 February 2019; Published: 12 March 2019

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