Portable standoff Raman and Mie-Rayleigh lidar for cloud, aerosol, and chemical monitoring

Shiv K. Sharma; John N. Porter; Anupum K. Misra; Hugh W. Hubble; Premlata Menon

doi:10.1117/12.509197

23 December 2003 Portable standoff Raman and Mie-Rayleigh lidar for cloud, aerosol, and chemical monitoring

Shiv K. Sharma, John N. Porter, Anupum K. Misra, Hugh W. Hubble, Premlata Menon

Proceedings Volume 5154, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.509197
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There is a need for portable, low-cost lidar systems that can be used for cloud, aerosols and chemical monitoring from a stand-off distance. At the University of Hawaii we have developed lidar systems based on a 12.7-cm diameter telescope and a 20 Hz frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser source. For stand off Raman detection of organic liquid and vapors, and plastic explosives, we are using a 0.25-m HoloSpec f/2.2 spectrometer equipped with a gated intensified detector (PI Model I-MAX-1024-E). The samples of interest are excited with 532-nm laser light (35 mJ/pulse). The operational range of the Raman system is in 10's of meters and has been tested at distance of 66 m. This system can also be operated as a Raman lidar by using appropriate filters for atmospheric nitrogen, oxygen and other gaseous species of interest. The Mie-Rayleigh lidar system uses the same telescope and laser, but we have three (1064, 532 and 355-nm) wavelengths available for monitoring clouds and aerosols. A small Hamamatsu H6779 photomultiplier tube (PMT) located near the focal point of telescope detects 532-nm backscatter signal. An avalanche photodiode (APD, EG & G C3095) detector equipped with a 2.5-cm diameter aspheric lens is used for detecting 1064-nm backscatter. The Mie-Rayleigh lidar has usable range of 60 - 4000 m. Results obtained with this system for marine aerosols and clouds are discussed.

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Shiv K. Sharma, John N. Porter, Anupum K. Misra, Hugh W. Hubble, and Premlata Menon "Portable standoff Raman and Mie-Rayleigh lidar for cloud, aerosol, and chemical monitoring", Proc. SPIE 5154, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, (23 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.509197

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