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25 Aug 2017
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Using paraxial approximation to describe the optical setup of a typical EARLINET lidar system
Panagiotis Kokkalis
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Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote
Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, 15236, Greece
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Short summary
The mathematical formulation for the optical setup of a typical EARLINET lidar system is given here. The equations describing a lidar system from the emitted laser beam to the projection of the telescope aperture on the final receiving unit (i.e., photomultiplier or photodiode) are presented, based on paraxial approximation and a geometric optics approach. The evaluation of the formulation is performed with ray-tracing simulations on a real system.
The mathematical formulation for the optical setup of a typical EARLINET lidar system is given...
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