Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 18, 1836001(2024)

Doppler Wind Lidar Adopting Radio-Frequency Edge Discriminator

Kenan Wu1,2, Jiadong Hu1, Haiyun Xia1,2、*, Tianwen Wei1、**, and Jiawei Qiu1
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  • 1School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu , China
  • 2School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui , China
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    System setup of the lidar
    Calculated power spectrum density of Ch1 and Ch2 using 30 m range gate length. (a) Ch1; (b) Ch2
    Response function of the system
    Results under small wind condition. (a) Signal intensity of Ch1 and Ch2 at 10:50 on November 23, 2022; (b) ratio of signal intensity between Ch1 and Ch2; (c) radial wind velocity profiles of the proposed lidar when accumulated time is 2 s, and the velocity difference is also plotted in the below panel
    Results under strong wind condition. (a) Signal intensity of Ch1 and Ch2 at 15:48 on November 29, 2022; (b) ratio of signal intensity between Ch1 and Ch2; radial wind velocity profiles of the proposed lidar when accumulated time is (c) 2 s, (d) 0.5 s, and (e) 0.1 s, and the velocity differences also plotted in the below panels
    • Table 1. Key parameters of the lidar

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      Table 1. Key parameters of the lidar

      DeviceParameterValue
      Laser

      Wavelength /nm

      Pulse duration /ns

      Pulse energy /µJ

      Pulse repetition rate /kHz

      LO power /mW

      1550

      200

      80

      10

      0.8

      Telescope

      Aperture /mm

      Focal length /mm

      LMAF mode-field diameter /µm

      100

      550

      25

      Receiver

      BD bandwidth /MHz

      BPF bandwidth /MHz

      BPF insertion loss /dB

      BPF stop band suppression /dB

      Power spliter 1

      Power spliter 2

      Sampling rate of Ch0 /(MSa·s-1

      Sampling rate of Ch1/2 /(MSa·s-1

      220

      50-110

      1

      60

      1∶1

      1∶2

      250

      50

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    Kenan Wu, Jiadong Hu, Haiyun Xia, Tianwen Wei, Jiawei Qiu. Doppler Wind Lidar Adopting Radio-Frequency Edge Discriminator[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(18): 1836001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Letters

    Received: May. 17, 2024

    Accepted: Jul. 15, 2024

    Published Online: Sep. 11, 2024

    The Author Email: Xia Haiyun (hsia@ustc.edu.cn), Wei Tianwen (003628@nuist.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS241037

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