Remote sensing of marine aerosol with an SNSPD-based lidar
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Wu, Cheng; Xing, Wenge; Feng, Zhijun; Xia, Linghao
- Source
- 2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP) Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP), 2019 IEEE International Conference on. :1-4 Dec, 2019
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
atmospheric remote sensing
lidar
superconducting nanowire single photon detector
marine aerosol
extinction coefficient
backscatter ratio
- Language
A superconducting nanowire single photon detector-(SNSPD-) based lidar with the emission wavelength of 1064 nm was demonstrated for atmospheric remote sensing. The lidar system was used to measure the marine aerosol over the sea in an island of Qingdao. A distinct moving fog layer in the range of ~70 km was observed and corresponding optical parameters were derived. During the measurement period, the fog layer became optically thinner with the layer width unchanged. The results show that SNSPD-based lidar can be effective for atmospheric remote sensing.