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Atmospheric lidar usually cannot cover this range due to the incomplete overlap effect or the limited dynamic range of detectors. This drawback is well known as the blind zone effect, which hinders the application of atmospheric lidars in many aspects. In this work, a method based on an optical fiber bundle was proposed to mitigate the blind zone effect. An optical fiber head with several stages, installed at the focal plane of the telescope, is used to receive backscatter light from different range levels. The design of the optical fiber head is analyzed with the ray-tracing technique. The optical fiber installed at the highest stage of the fiber head can collect far-range light like a small aperture, and all the other optical fibers are bundled into a near-range detection channel to receive backscatter light from the first few hundred meters. This special design can avoid the near-range light loss in conventional lidar systems, usually equipped with a small aperture. Different optical attenuations are then applied to near-range and far-range channels to suppress the overall signal dynamic range. This light-receiving method was applied in a 1030 nm elastic lidar, in which a fiber bundle with a three-stage fiber head was fabricated and installed. A test experiment was performed to verify this approach. A good agreement between simulations and in-system results was found. Based on this design, the blind zone of the lidar system is less than 50 m, and the detectable range can be over 10 km along the lidar\u2019s line of sight with a single telescope receiver. This approach brings a new way of designing atmospheric lidar with a low blind zone and can strengthen our ability to monitor urban pollution and promote land-atmosphere interaction research.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15194643","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,22]],"date-time":"2023-09-22T03:44:42Z","timestamp":1695354282000},"page":"4643","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Low Blind Zone Atmospheric Lidar Based on Fiber Bundle Receiving"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3270-534X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenping","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Qianyuan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Zhichao","family":"Bu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Meteorological Observation Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5262-1595","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Longlong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0830-0898","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"810","DOI":"10.1093\/nsr\/nwx117","article-title":"Aerosol and boundary-layer interactions and impact on air quality","volume":"4","author":"Li","year":"2017","journal-title":"Natl. 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