Tunable infrared laser sources for DIAL

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4723, Issue , 2002, Pages 147-155

  Carrig, Timothy J ^a   Hankla, Allen K ^a   Wagner, Gregory J ^a   Rawle, Chris B ^a,b   McKinnie, Iain T ^a  

^a Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Differential absorption lidar; Laser; Long wave infrared; Mid wave infrared; Optical parametric oscillator

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; YTTERBIUM;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS (DIAL); MID-WAVE INFRARED RADIATION (MWIR);

LASERS;

EID: 0036031503     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476405     Document Type: Article

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