Expanding observational capabilities of diode-laser-based lidar through shot-to-shot modification of laser pulse characteristics

Stillwell, Robert A.; Karboski, Adam; Hayman, Matthew; Spuler, Scott M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-4119-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-4119-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-4119-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

Research article

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02 Sep 2025

Research article |

| 02 Sep 2025

Expanding observational capabilities of diode-laser-based lidar through shot-to-shot modification of laser pulse characteristics

Robert A. Stillwell, Adam Karboski, Matthew Hayman, and Scott M. Spuler

Data sets

NCAR MPD data NCAR/EOL-MPD-Team https://doi.org/10.26023/MX0D-Z722-M406

Short summary

A method is introduced to expand the observational capability of a diode-laser-based lidar system. This method allows the lidar transmitter to change the laser pulse characteristics from one shot to the next. We use this capability to lower the minimum altitude of observation and to observe clouds with higher range resolution.