Abstract
Fundamental relationships between backscattered power, range, wavelength, and number of scatter centers in the probe volume for the self-aligning, dual-scatter, laser doppler velocimeter are developed. It is shown that not all power scattered from the velocimeter probe volume contributes to a doppler signal. This fact leads to significant deviations in calculations involving signal-to-noise power ratios as compared to the case when only gross backscattered power is considered.
© 1971 Optical Society of America
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W. M. Farmer, "Errata to: Analysis of Atmospheric Laser Doppler Velocimeters," Appl. Opt. 11, 1872-1872 (1972)https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-11-8-1872
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