Nd:GSAG laser for water vapor detection by LIDAR near 942 nm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6451, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kallmeyer, Frank ^a   Dziedzina, Marcus ^a   Schmidt, Daniel ^a   Eichler, Hans Joachim ^a   Treichel, Reiner ^b   Nikolov, Susanne ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

DIAL; Injection seeding; Mixed garnet laser; Water vapor detection

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL RADAR; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INJECTION SEEDING; LASER OSCILLATORS; MIXED GARNET LASERS; WATER VAPOR DETECTION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 34248373401     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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