Coherent Lidar CNR: A Summary of the Effects of Refractive Turbulence and the Dependence on the Normalized Irradiance Variance

摘要

Expressions for the bistatic gain of a coherent lidar were reviewed. We showed that the fundamental representation of the monostatic gain is in terms of the wander corrected quantities: σ_(I,wc)~2 , G_(B,wc), and Φ_(wc). For moderate or greater path-integrated turbulence we showed that Φ_(wc) = 0. For this condition σ_(I,wc)~2 , and σ_I~2 were related through G_w and the dependence of Φ on the wander corrected quantities was determined.