300mJ, injection seeded, compact 2μm coherent Lidar transmitter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6409, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Petros, Mulugeta ^a   Jirong, Yu ^b   Trieu, Bo ^b   Yingxin, Bai ^c   Petzar, Paul ^c   Singh, Upendra N ^b  

^a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Ho lasers; Rare earth and transition metal solid state lasers; Solid state lasers; Tm lasers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRANSMITTERS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

DIODE PUMPED LASERS; HO LASERS; TM LASERS; TRANSITION METAL SOLID STATE LASERS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 33846798232     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.694172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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