Atmospheric Lidar Fundamentals

Chiao-Yao She is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Colorado State University and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has decades of experience in the area of atmospheric lidar physics, since obtaining his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964, and pioneered two narrowband atmospheric lidars that enabled important scientific investigations. He has an outstanding research and publication record including more than two hundred papers on related topics and two book chapters. Jonathan S. Friedman received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 1991 and is currently the Director of the Puerto Rico Photonics Institute, which he founded in 2011 at the Universidad Ana G. Mendez. For twenty six years, he was a research associate at the Arecibo Observatory for Cornell University, and at SRI International. In addition to developing and employing lidar technology to study the atmosphere, he has also published extensively in the field of lidar science and spectroscopic physics.

Forward; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical light scattering theory; 3. Semi-classical treatment of light absorption and scattering from atoms; 4. Rayleigh and Raman scattering from linear molecules; 5. Introduction to lidar remote sensing and the lidar equation; 6. Common (broadband) lidar types and associated applications; References; Index.