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Development of High Spectral Resolution Lidar System for Measuring Aerosol and Cloud

  • Zhao, Ming;Xie, Chen-Bo;Zhong, Zhi-Qing;Wang, Bang-Xin;Wang, Zhen-Zhu;Dai, Pang-Da;Shang, Zhen;Tan, Min;Liu, Dong;Wang, Ying-Jian
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.695-699
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    • 2015
  • A high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) system based on injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser and iodine absorption filter has been developed for the quantitative measurement of aerosol and cloud. The laser frequency is stabilized at 80 MHz by a frequency locking system and the absorption line of iodine cell is selected at the 1111 line with 2 GHz width. The observations show that the HSRL can provide vertical profiles of particle extinction coefficient, backscattering coefficient and lidar ratio for cloud and aerosol up to 12 km altitude, simultaneously. For the measured cases, the lidar ratios are 10~20 sr for cloud, 28~37 sr for dust, and 58~70 sr for urban pollution aerosol. It reveals the potential of HSRL to distinguish the type of aerosol and cloud. Time series measurements are given and demonstrate that the HSRL has ability to continuously observe the aerosol and cloud for day and night.

12-year LIDAR Observations of Tropospheric Aerosol over Hefei (31.9°N, 117.2°E), China

  • Wu, Decheng;Zhou, Jun;Liu, Dong;Wang, Zhenzhu;Zhong, Zhiqing;Xie, Chenbo;Qi, Fudi;Fan, Aiyuan;Wang, Yingjian
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.90-95
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    • 2011
  • 12-year LIDAR observations of tropospheric aerosol vertical distribution using a Mie scattering LIDAR in Hefei ($31.9^{\circ}N$, $117.2^{\circ}E$) from 1998 to 2009 are presented and analyzed in this paper. Characters of temporal variation and vertical distribution of tropospheric aerosol over Hefei are summarized from the LIDAR measurements. The impacts of natural source and human activities on the aerosol vertical distribution over Hefei could be seen clearly. Dust particles from the north in spring could affect the aerosol distributions below about 12 km over Hefei, and aerosol scale height in April reaches $2.29{\pm}0.68\;km$. Both LIDAR measurements and surface visibility imply that aerosols in the lower troposphere have been increasing since about 2005.

Doppler LIDAR Measurement of Wind in the Stratosphere

  • Dong, Jihui;Cha, Hyun-Ki;Kim, Duk-Hyeon;Baik, Sung-Hoon;Wang, Guocheng;Tang, Lei;Shu, Zhifeng;Xu, Wenjing;Hu, Dongdong;Sun, Dongsong
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.199-203
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    • 2010
  • A mobile direct detection Doppler LIDAR based on molecular backscattering for measurement of wind in the stratosphere has been developed in Hefei, China. First, the principle of wind measurement with direct detection Doppler LIDAR is presented. Then the configuration of the LIDAR system is described. Finally, the primary experimental results are provided and analyzed. The results indicate that the detection range of the designed Doppler LIDAR reached 50 km altitude, and there is good consistency between the molecular Doppler wind LIDAR(DWL) and the wind profile radar(WPR) in the low troposphere.

A novel optical cell compressor for optical time division multiplexing system

  • 신서용;추광욱;원용협
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.524-531
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    • 1997
  • A novel optical cell compressor for optical time division multiplexing system is presented. The compressor is capable of generating optically compressed very high bit-rate (possibly several tens of Gb/s) signals with minimum hardware. Contrast to the previously reported optical compressor, the compressor is mainly composed of passive optical devices and requires no synchronization among control signals in the process of compression, which results in simple implementation. We demonstrate a generation of optically compressed 6 Gb/s optical cells to confirm the fundamental operation of the compressor.

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Characterizing the strain transfer on the sensing cable-soil interface based on triaxial testing

  • Wu, Guan-Zhong;Zhang, Dan;Shan, Tai-Song;Shi, Bin;Fang, Yuan-Jiang;Ren, Kang
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2022
  • The deformation coordination between a rock/soil mass and an optical sensing cable is an important issue for accurate deformation monitoring. A stress-controlled triaxial apparatus was retrofitted by introducing an optical fiber into the soil specimen. High spatial resolution optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) was used for monitoring the strain distribution along the axial direction of the specimen. The results were compared with those measured by a displacement meter. The strain measured by the optical sensing cable has a good linear relationship with the strain calculated by the displacement meter for different confining pressures, which indicates that distributed optical fiber sensing technology is feasible for soil deformation monitoring. The performance of deformation coordination between the sensing cable and the soil during unloading is higher than that during loading based on the strain transfer coefficients. Three hypothetical strain distributions of the triaxial specimen are proposed, based on which theoretical models of the strain transfer coefficients are established. It appears that the parabolic distribution of specimen strain should be more reasonable by comparison. Nevertheless, the strain transfer coefficients obtained by the theoretical models are higher than the measured coefficients. On this basis, a strain transfer model considering slippage at the interface of the sensing cable and the soil is discussed.

Adaptive Detection of a Moving Target Undergoing Illumination Changes against a Dynamic Background

  • Lu, Mu;Gao, Yang;Zhu, Ming
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.745-751
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    • 2016
  • A detection algorithm, based on the combined local-global (CLG) optical-flow model and Gaussian pyramid for a moving target appearing against a dynamic background, can compensate for the inadaptability of the classic Horn-Schunck algorithm to illumination changes and reduce the number of needed calculations. Incorporating the hypothesis of gradient conservation into the traditional CLG optical-flow model and combining structure and texture decomposition enable this algorithm to minimize the impact of illumination changes on optical-flow estimates. Further, calculating optical-flow with the Gaussian pyramid by layers and computing optical-flow at other points using an optical-flow iterative with higher gray-level points together reduce the number of calculations required to improve detection efficiency. Finally, this proposed method achieves the detection of a moving target against a dynamic background, according to the background motion vector determined by the displacement and magnitude of the optical-flow. Simulation results indicate that this algorithm, in comparison to the traditional Horn-Schunck optical-flow algorithm, accurately detects a moving target undergoing illumination changes against a dynamic background and simultaneously demonstrates a significant reduction in the number of computations needed to improve detection efficiency.