LEMON upcoming events

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many events planned this year have been postponed or cancelled.Here are some updates about the upcoming conferences that the LEMON partners will attend. The 19th International Conference Laser Optics – ICLO 2020 in St-Peterburg, Russia, initially planned in June 2020, has been postponed and will take place between the 2nd – 6th November 2020. LEMON partner KTH is the …

LEMON General Assembly

The LEMON project is dedicated to developing a new versatile Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) sensor concept for greenhouse gases and water vapour measurements from space. Although during the COVID-19 crisis most of partners’ facilities were closed and the access to their laboratories limited, the LEMON team continued part of the work remotely. The LEMON General …

LEMON Newsletter n°2 / April 2020 released

The LEMON consortium is pleased to release the project Newsletter N°2 / April 2020. In this issue of the Newsletter you will find: – The LEMON Instrument Design by ONERA. – Contributions by CNRS and Fraunhofer ILT on Existing Lidar applications in the space sector. – The First results of the ‘FRUIT’ manufacturing, by SPACETECH. …

White Paper on the LEMON « FRUIT »

The LEMON project is pleased to present the first results on the so-called Frequency Reference UnIT (FRUIT) manufacturing, which are exposed in the « White paper: The LEMON FRUIT: An absolute frequency reference concept for future spaceborne multi species differential absorption Lidar instruments« , by partner SPACETECH. In order to obtain accurate greenhouse gas concentrations from DIAL …

Postdoctoral Research Fellow position within Atmospheric Sciences and Water Isotope Research

At the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen, there is a vacancy for a position as a postdoctoral research fellow within atmospheric sciences and water isotope research with a focus on atmospheric processes in the lower atmosphere and water isotope observations from remote sensing, ground based observations, and airborne data collection. The position is …

LEMON at the International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO 2020)

The LEMON consortium has been invited at the next International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO 2020) on laser physics, optics and photonics.  This event will be held from the 8th to the 12th of June 2020 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It will be the occasion to talk about multispecies emitters for green-house gases monitoring with institutions …

LEMON consortium gathered for the first EC review meeting

LEMON consortium partners gathered for a physical 2-day meeting on the 14th and 15th January 2020 at ONERA facilities in Palaiseau, precisely one year after the project kick-off meeting. In order to involve the whole project workforce, some partners participated to the meeting through a visioconference. The first day was dedicated to consortium-internal presentations of …

SHG generation with fs pulses in a ridge waveguide

SPACETECH recently released the results of their testing entitled ‘SHG generation with fs pulses in a ridge waveguide’. The data were published in the Newsletter from Covesion on the 18th of November 2019. As a main result, 1560nm SHG with fs laser in a PPLN Waveguide from Covesion generated (a) 45% conversion efficiency at 1kW …

First Newsletter from the LEMON project

The first public Newsletter from the LEMON project has been released! Contributions by the project Coordinator, Myriam Raybaut, and by the EC project Officer, Sabri Mekaoui, will lead you into this first edition of the LEMON Newsletter. You will furthermore find several focuses on the project history, on LEMON environmental challenge and the first project …

ONERA at the French National Day on air quality in Dunkerque

LEMON WP2 Leader, J. B. Dherbecourt (ONERA), attended the French National Day on air quality on the 19th of September 2019 in Dunkerque to give a presentation on ONERA’s work in the field of air quality. In the framework of the same event, Dunkerque hosted a Day dedicated to « Industrial security and environment », to which …