Development of 1.6 μm DIAL using an OPG/OPA transmitter for measuring atmospheric CO2 concentration profiles

Appl Opt. 2017 Feb 1;56(4):1194-1201. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.001194.

Abstract

An experiment for the measurement of atmospheric CO2 vertical profiles up to a 7 km altitude was successfully conducted using a 1.6 μm ground-based differential absorption Lidar developed by Tokyo Metropolitan University. To achieve a high pulse repetition rate, large power output, and high frequency stabilization, we developed a new 1.6 μm Lidar system using an optical parametric generator (OPG) transmitter. Unlike the previous system's transmitter, OPG does not need a resonator. We amplified its output with two optical parametric amplifiers. We validated our system against an in situ sensor and found the difference between their CO2 concentration measurements to be 0.06 ppm.