Development of a compact laser source for airborne countermeasures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6738, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Godard, Antoine ^a   Lefebvre, Michel ^a   Hassani, Said A Said ^b   Galtier, Pierre ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical sensing; Countermeasure; Infrared; Laser; Nonlinear optical material; Optical parametric oscillator

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

CONVERSION STAGES;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 42149163482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.737328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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