Advanced 2-μm solid-state laser for wind and CO2 lidar applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6409, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jirong, Yu ^a   Trieu, Bo C ^a   Petros, Mulugeta ^b   Yingxin, Bai ^c   Petzar, Paul J ^c   Koch, Grady J ^a   Singh, Upendra N ^a   Kavaya, Michael J ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DIFFRENCIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR (DIAL); DIODE PUMPED LASERS; TRANSITION METAL SOLID STATE LASERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COOLANTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RARE EARTHS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSITION METALS; WIND;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 33846799190     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.696908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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