Development of an eye-safe solid-state tunable laser transmitter in the 1.4-1.5 μm wavelength region based on Cr4+:YAG crystal for lidar applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1522-1534

  Petrova Mayor, Anna ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Weibring, Petter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; TRANSMITTERS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER INJECTION;

BIREFRINGENT FILTERS; CRYSTAL TEMPERATURES; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION; LASER TRANSMITTERS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 48949083036     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001522     Document Type: Article

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