Compact light-emitting-diode sun photometer for atmospheric optical depth measurements
Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 7, pp. 1209-1214 (1995)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.34.001209
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Abstract
A new compact light-emitting diode (LED) sun photometer, in which a LED is used as a spectrally selective photodetector as well as a nonlinear feedback element in the operational amplifier, has been developed. The output voltage that is proportional to the logarithm of the incident solar intensity permits the direct measurement of atmospheric optical depths in selected spectral bands. Measurements made over Ahmedabad, India, show good agreement, within a few percent, of optical depths derived with a LED as a photodetector in a linear mode and with a LED as both a photodetector and a feedback element in an operational amplifier in log mode. The optical depths are also found to compare well with those obtained simultaneously with a conventional filter photometer
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Citation
Y. B. Acharya, A. Jayaraman, S. Ramachandran, and B. H. Subbaraya, "Compact light-emitting-diode sun photometer for atmospheric optical depth measurements," Appl. Opt. 34, 1209-1214 (1995)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-34-7-1209
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