Centimetre precision eye-safe satellite laser ranging using a Raman-shifted Nd:YAG laser and germanium photon counter

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-4

  Kunimori, H ^a   Greene, B ^b   Hamal, K ^c   Prochazka, I ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Electro Optic Systems Pty Limited   (Australia)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; PHOTODETECTORS; RANGE FINDING;

ATMOSPHERIC RANGE CORRECTION; EYE-SAFE LASERS; RAMAN SHIFTED LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0033875039     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/2/1/301     Document Type: Article

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