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Department of Physics
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida 33620 USA

TELEPHONE NUMBER: (813) 974-3995

FAX NUMBER: (813) 974-2635

E-MAIL ADDRESS: killinge@chuma,cas,usf,edu

WEB SITE: http://www.cas.usf.edu/physics/faculty/killinger.html

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LIDAR LOCATION (CITY, COUNTRY, LAT., LONG.): Tampa, Florida
27 deg 52' N; 82 deg 55' W

SITE ELEVATION: 30 m

PARAMETER(S) OR CONSTITUENT(S) MEASURED: Aerosols, CO2

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SPONSOR: ONR, NASA Laser Development of Tunable lidar and in-situe laser-induced-fluorescence systems for trace species detection.

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE: Backscatter Lidar and fluorescence LIF

MEASUREMENT RANGE: 1 - 2 km

VERTICAL RESOLUTION: 10 m

FREQ. OF MEASUREMENT (TYPICALLY): Not consistent; driven more by laboratory developments

MEASUREMENT TIMES (TYPICALLY):

LASER TYPE AND WAVELENGTH (s): KTP OPO 1.57 micron for atmospheric aerosols; 0.266 micron fluorescence for organic compounds

LASER ENERGY/PULSE: 100 mJ/pulse for OPO; 1 mJ/pulse for UV system

PULSE REPETITION RATE: 10 Hz

RECEIVER SIZE AND CONFIGURATION: 30 cm diameter

DETECTORS USED: InGaAs APD

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ANALOG-T0-DIGITAL CONVERTER:

COMPUTER: PC

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PUBLICATIONS (5 recent and/or significant):

Optimal Detector Selection for a 1.5 micron KTP OPO Atmospheric Lidar, P. Mamidipudi and D.K. Killinger, SPIE Vol. 3707, p 327 (1999)

Development of a tunable narrow linewidth cw 2.066 micron Ho:YLF laser for remote sensing of atmospheric CO2 and H2O, T. Taczak and D.K. Killinger, Applied Optics 37, p.8460 (1998)

COMMENTS:

Recent work has also included studies of multiple aperture heterodyne detection arrays and their use at 1.54 micron wavelengths for use in coherent lidar and fiber optics communication applications.