The characteristics and capability of a homemade all-fiber 1.54-μm pulsed coherent Doppler lidar (CDL) were validated in field experiments by comparing the detection results with a collocated lidar and sounding balloons. With the range gate of 30 m and temporal resolution of 16 s at velocity–azimuth display mode, the detection capability of the CDL ranged from 0.1 to 5 km, and the time sequence and height position of this CDL were calibrated by the collocated lidar. In the intercomparison experiments with sounding balloons, the discrepancy of 30-s averaged measurement results of horizontal wind speed and wind direction was nearly 0.7  m  /  s and 5.3 deg, respectively. The good agreement achieved in such a short averaged time period was a convincing case of intercomparison experiments between CDL and sounding balloon. The CDL system demonstrated good reliability and operational stability in field experiments.

A compact single-frequency master oscillator power amplifier laser system composed of three-stage thulium-doped fiber amplifiers was developed. At a repetition rate of 10 Hz, >100-μJ pulse energy at 2050.5-nm wavelength, with ∼431-ns pulse width, was achieved successfully. The pulse profile could be actively controlled by adjusting the drive signal of an acoustic-optical modulator. This all-fiber laser system could be utilized as a seeder laser for a solid-state power amplifier system.