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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2020
Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches Aérospatiales, Palaiseau, FR;
David Tomline Michel, Orsay, FR;
Béatrice Augere, Palaiseau, FR;
Matthieu Valla, Epinay sur Orge, FR;
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Palaiseau, FR;
Abstract
A LIDAR system is adapted for performing anemometrical measurements relating to a focusing zone of a laser beam which is emitted by the system. The system includes a temporal control device for the laser beam, which is adapted for putting this laser beam in successive laser pulse form, so that each laser pulse has an individual length which is greater than or equal to twice the Rayleigh length divided by the propagation speed of the laser pulses in the atmosphere, and less than 20 μs. Advantageously, the individual length of each laser pulse is between 0.2 and 5 times the coherence time of the atmosphere which is effective in the focusing zone. Such a LIDAR system provides values for a spectral CNR ratio which are better than those of systems from the state-of-the-art, at equivalent spatial resolution.