Realization of a 50-watt facility-class sodium guidestar pump laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5707, Issue , 2005, Pages 46-49

  Denman, Craig A ^a   Hillman, Paul D ^a   Moore, Gerald T ^a   Telle, John M ^a   Preston, Joseph E ^b   Drummond, Jack D ^a   Fugate, Robert Q ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked lasers; Single frequency lasers; Sodium guidestar; Sum frequency generation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SODIUM;

INJECTION-LOCKED LASERS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASERS; SODIUM GUIDESTAR; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION (SFG);

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 21844445539     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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