| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 197, 2019
Atmospheric Monitoring for High Energy Astroparticle Detectors (AtmoHEAD) 2018
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 03005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Transient Luminous Events and General Topics in Atmospheric Electricity | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919703005 | |
| Published online | 15 January 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919703005
Upgrade of the YerPhI polarization Lidar System for using Polarization of the Elastic and Raman Backscattered Beams
A. Alikhanyan National Lab (Yerevan Physics Institute),
Yerevan,
Armenia.
* e-mail: ghalumyan@yandex.ru
Published online: 15 January 2019
A powerful two-frequency lidar system using polarized beams has been developed at YerPhI. The system is completed with laser beam polarization changers and nitrogen and water Raman channels for investigation of the influence of atmospheric electric fields on the elastic and Raman backscattered beams polarization. At present, the system is being tuned for measuring vertical atmospheric backscatter profiles of aerosols and hydrometeors, analyze the depolarization ratio of elastic backscattered laser beams and investigate the influence of external factors on the beam polarization. Laser light that is reflected from the air and from clouds carries information on density profiles, aerosols and electrical fields. Applications of this system will be the investigation of the electrical state of the atmosphere during thunderstorms [1-3] on Mt Aragats, and, possibly the monitoring of the atmosphere at the site of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). CTA is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity for gamma ray detection in the energy range of 30 GeV to 300 TeV. To fully exploit the potential of the telescope system it is important to characterize the optical and electrical properties of the atmosphere. A lidar system for the continuous monitoring of the atmosphere is the tool of choice.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.