Incoherent pulse Doppler lidar as the velocimeter system

This note reports a new type of incoherent pulse laser Doppler lidar velocimeter with iodine molecular filter as a frequency discriminator. Its transmitter subsystem applies a Nd:YAG pulse laser which is injected with a single longitudinal-mode diode pumped continuous seeder laser.The field experiment proved that this velocimeter measurement results are consistent with those measured by photoelectric velocimeter. Measurements of eight different velocities show that the standard deviation is 0.56 m/s, the range resolution is 3.75 m.