Injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator for airborne water vapour DIAL

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 837-852

  Fix, Andreas ^a   Weiss, Volker ^a   Ehret, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0032118181     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/7/4/019     Document Type: Article

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