Metastable Helium Lidar for Thermosphere and Lower Exosphere Measurements: Instrument Description and Initial Results

Abstract In this work, we present a metastable helium lidar system for the measurements of metastable helium He(23S) density in the thermosphere and lower exosphere. This lidar system consists of a high power 1,083 nm pulsed laser, a 1 m aperture laser beam expander, six 1 m aperture receiving teles...

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Published in:	Space Weather
Main Authors:	Ruocan Zhao, Zhenwei Liu, Xianghui Xue, Hang Zhou, Zhaofeng Wang, Yingyu Liu, Jiangtao Li, Dongsong Sun, Jiaxin Lan, Tingdi Chen, Dongfeng Zhao, Xiankang Dou
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2024-08-01
Subjects:	metastable helium lidar resonance fluorescence lidar thermospheric metastable helium thermosphere remote sensing
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1029/2024SW003977