About the effects of polarising optics on lidar signals and the Δ90 calibration
By Volker Freudenthaler. 2016
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Abstract. This paper provides a model for assessing the effects of polarising optics on the signals of typical lidar systems, which is based on the description of the individual optical elements of the lidar and of the state of polarisation of the light by means of the Muller–Stokes formalism. General analytical equations are derived for the dependence of the lidar signals on polarisation parameters, for the linear depolarisation ratio, and for the signals of different polarisation calibration setups. The equations can also be used for the calculation of systematic errors caused by nonideal optical elements, their rotational misalignment, and by non-ideal laser polarisation. We present the description of the lidar signals including the polarisation calibration in a closed form, which can be applied for a large variety of lidar systems.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change
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In Biomedical Engineering
- Cristofer Jiménez
- Ronny Engelmann
- Moritz Haarig
- Albert Ansmann
- Dietrich Althausen
- Igor Veselovskii
- Holger Baars
- Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri
In Ecology
- Cristofer Jiménez
- Ronny Engelmann
- Moritz Haarig
- Albert Ansmann
- Dietrich Althausen
- Igor Veselovskii
- Holger Baars
- Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri
In Global and Planetary Change
- Albert Ansmann
- Dietrich Althausen
- Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri
- Holger Baars
- Ronny Engelmann
- Cristofer Jiménez
- Moritz Haarig
- Igor Veselovskii
Citations in the corpus
- Potential of polarization/Raman lidar to separate fine dust, coarse dust, maritime, and anthropogenic aerosol profiles (2017, background): “Uncertainties in the basic lidar-derived optical properties and the POLIPHON retrieval products are extensively analyzed and discussed by Freudenthaler et al. (2009), Tesche et al. (2009b, 2011a, b), Mamouri et al. (2013), Mamouri and Ansmann (2014, 2016), and Bravo-Aranda et al. (2016) and will not”
- Depolarization and lidar ratios at 355, 532, and 1064 nm and microphysical properties of aged tropospheric and stratospheric Canadian wildfire smoke (2018, methodology): “An overview of the retrieval methods is given in Ansmann and Müller (2005); Freudenthaler et al. (2009); and Freudenthaler (2016).”