High-energy, efficient, 30-Hz ultraviolet laser sources for airborne ozone-lidar systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2734-2739

  Elsayed, Khaled A ^a   Chen, Songsheng ^b   Petway, Larry B ^c   Meadows, Byron L ^c   Marsh, Waverly D ^c   Edwards, William C ^c   Barnes, James C ^c   Deyoung, Russell J ^d  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Langley ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OZONE; REMOTE SENSING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

LASER PULSE ENERGIES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037140638     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002734     Document Type: Article

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