Atmospheric Transmission Measurement Program Report for 1 July Through 30 September 1976 (TQ 1976).

Abstract

A facility has been completed to measure atmospheric transmission by combining measurement techniques based on laser-line extinction, high-resolution Fourier spectroscopy, and gas filter correlation spectroscopy. Essential features of this measurement system are described, and initial measurements are presented of 0.1/cm-resolution atmospheric transmission using a 5-km overwater path at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland. Concurrent absolute transmission measurements at several DF laser wavelengths between 3.6 and 4.1 micrometers have been used to provide absolute transmission calibrations for the spectra. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA046794

Entities

People

  • C. O. Gott
  • D. H. Garcia
  • J. A. Curcio
  • J. A. Dowling
  • T. H. Cosden

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Air Temperature
  • Carbon Monoxide Lasers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Deuterium Fluoride Lasers
  • Dew Point
  • High Resolution
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Light (Electromagnetic Radiation)
  • Measurement
  • Michelson Interferometers
  • Optics
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers