Hyungki Cha

Rotational Raman lidar for obtaining aerosol scattering coefficients.

Two-channel lidar signals that are composed of total rotational scattering and elastic signals provide good information about aerosol scattering coefficients. We can calculate the aerosol backscattering coefficient and extinction coefficient directly, without making any assumption or calibration. Generally, a high-spectral-resolution lidar is used for aerosol monitoring, but we have designed a new low-spectral-resolution lidar system that contains both kinds of scattering information simultaneously, and we have retrieved the aerosol scattering coefficient. The results show that there is no need to assume any relation between aerosol backscattering and extinction or to consider any wavelength calibration to determine the aerosol scattering coefficient.

Absolute energy calibration for relativistic electron beams with pointing instability from a laser-plasma accelerator

The pointing instability of energetic electron beams generated from a laser-driven accelerator can cause a serious error in measuring the electron spectrum with a magnetic spectrometer. In order to determine a correct electron spectrum, the pointing angle of an electron beam incident on the spectrometer should be exactly defined. Here, we present a method for absolutely calibrating the electron spectrum by monitoring the pointing angle using a scintillating screen installed in front of a permanent dipole magnet. The ambiguous electron energy due to the pointing instability is corrected by the numerical and analytical calculations based on the relativistic equation of electron motion. It is also possible to estimate the energy spread of the electron beam and determine the energy resolution of the spectrometer using the beam divergence angle that is simultaneously measured on the screen. The calibration method with direct measurement of the spatial profile of an incident electron beam has a simple experimental layout and presents the full range of spatial and spectral information of the electron beams with energies of multi-hundred MeV level, despite the limited energy resolution of the simple electron spectrometer.

Direct Determination of Strontium in Marine Algae Samples by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometry

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Determination of trace cobalt in fruit samples by resonance ionization mass spectrometry

Abstract 1-color 2-photon resonance ionization mass spectrometry (RIMS) with a new electro-thermal atomizer equipped with six filaments has been applied for quantitative analysis of trace cobalt in fruit samples. The efficient transition lines for sensitive detection were investigated in the wavelength range of 283–302 nm and a transition at 298.71 nm was chosen as an excited state for the determination of Co. A proper calibration curve for cobalt up to 1 ppb has been constructed with satisfactory results. The minimum detectible amount of cobalt in this RIMS system was identified as less than 5 pg. The content of Co in three different fruits, pear, apple and Korean mandarin orange, have been determined by adopting standard addition to the fruit sample juice. The content of the Co in 5 μl of apple, pear and Korean mandarin juice was identified as 150, 45 and 100 pg, respectively.

A newly designed single etalon double edge Doppler wind lidar receiving optical system

A new optical Doppler lidar receiving system which can measure Doppler-shifted incoherent scattering light has been proposed and tested. This system functions in a manner similar to two edge filters and consists of a single etalon, a polarization beam splitter, and mirrors that can guide scattered light into a single etalon with two different angles. These two incident angles are precisely adjusted by the polarization beam splitter and mirrors. Using this optical receiving system we can measure a moving target with a high sensitivity. Theoretical calculations show that this system will have a better optical sensitivity than a single edge system and will allow the use of incoherent Doppler lidar for wind velocity measurements.

Suggestion for qualitative lidar identification of different types of aerosol using the two-wavelength rotational Raman and elastic lidar.

Aerosols are important parameters in the meteorological and environmental fields, and remote aerosol identification is extremely desirable. We have proposed and designed a two-wavelength (355 and 532 nm) rotational Raman and elastic lidar that can measure the wavelength dependence of the aerosol backscattering coefficient without any assumptions about the Angström coefficient or the overlapping function from low (100 m) to high (10 km) altitude, depending on the weather conditions. We have measured the differences in the backscattering ratios (BRs) among a cloud, aerosol in the boundary layer, and Asian dust. The ratio of the aerosol backscattering coefficients between two wavelengths is a fingerprint of an aerosol, which is similar to the Angström coefficient. The BR value for a typical aerosol ranged from 0.56 to 0.4 in the boundary layer and from 0.5 to 0.1 for Asian dust. The BR value of water droplet was not unique but was spread over a wide range because of its size distributions.

Measurement of Aerosol Parameters with Altitude by Using Two Wavelength Rotational Raman Signals

Aerosol size distribution provides good information for predicting weather changes and understanding cloud formation. Aerosol extinction coefficient and backscattering coefficient are measured by many scientists, but these parameters depend not only on aerosol size but on aerosol concentrations. An algorithm has been developed to measure aerosol parameters such as alt;TEXagt;

Extraction of palladium metal from aqueous solution of palladium chloride by laser-induced photochemistry

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