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The signal correction of a CW-laser-outgoing Helium Lidar based on an area-array ICCD
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  • Ruocan Zhao,
  • Xianghui Xue,
  • Dongsong Sun,
  • Jiaxin Lan,
  • Tingyu Pan,
  • Xiankang Dou
Ruocan Zhao
University of Science and Technology of China

Corresponding Author:canlan@ustc.edu.cn

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Xianghui Xue
Univ. of Sci.& Tech. of China
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Dongsong Sun
University of Science and Technology of China
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Jiaxin Lan
University of Science and Technology of China
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Tingyu Pan
University of Science and Technology of China
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Xiankang Dou
USTC University of Science and Technology of China
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Abstract

A Helium Lidar system, which is being developed for measurements of metastable helium density in the thermosphere and exosphere, employs a CW 1083nm laser with power of 60W, a telescope array consisting of six 1m-diameter telescope and an area-array ICCD. To realize range-resolved remote sensing, the laser is located separately from the location of telescope with a distance of D and the laser beamed is leaned towards the Field-of-view (FOV) of the telescope array with an zenith angle of θ. The signal in a specific height is finally imaged onto a corresponding pixel of the ICCD. Before the retrieval of metastable helium density, the first procedure is to decide the relation between the pixels and corresponding heights. Based on the FOV of the telescope, the divergence angle of the laser beam, the geometry of the laser and telescope, and the size of the pixels, every pixel corresponds to a specific height range, as shown in Fig. 1. The darkest shade corresponds to one pixel of the ICCD. Therefore, the second procedure is to correct the height range overlap of the signal from adjacent pixels to decrease the smoothness of the signal profile caused by the height overlap of adjacent pixels. The signal received by the ICCD is simulated based on a metastable helium density model developed by Waldrop et. al. The results show that these two signal correcting procedures can improve the precision of each pixel’s signal by 5% in average.