Qualification of the laser transmitter for the CALIPSO aerosol lidar mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6100, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hovis, Floyd E ^a  

^a FIBERTEK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Lidar; Solid state lasers; Space qualified lasers

Indexed keywords

CALIPSO LASER TRANSMITTER SUBSYSTEM (LTS); DIODE-PUMPED LASERS; FLIGHT HARDWARES; SPACE-QUALIFIED LASERS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 33646172791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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