Abstract

A high spatial resolution coherent Doppler wind lidar (CDWL) incorporating pseudo-random phase coding (PRPC) is proposed and demonstrated. Random phase coding of the transmitted lightwave spreads the atmospheric backscattered spectrum and the spatial resolution can be enhanced as only the signal with specific time delay could be despread during decoding. The narrow peak of the despread spectrum provides higher wind velocity retrieval accuracy compared with conventional pulsed CDWL with the same spatial resolution. Spectrum difference is applied to reduce the interference between the spread and despread spectra. The new method's performance is verified in a comparison experiment with a non-coding CDWL. Continuous radial wind profile measurement over 800 m is demonstrated with spatial/temporal resolution of 4.5 m/1 s, at laser peak power of 250 W.

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