Solid-state 2-micron laser transmitter advancement for wind and carbon dioxide measurements from ground, airborne, and space-based lidar systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7111, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Singh, Upendra N ^a   Kavaya, Michael ^a   Koch, Grady ^a   Yu, Jirong ^a   Ismail, Syed ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; HOLMIUM; LASERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MEASUREMENTS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; PUMPING (LASER); RARE EARTHS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE PLATFORMS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMITTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CO; DIFFERENTIAL-ABSORPTION LIDARS; DIODE-PUMPED LASERS; DOPPLER WIND LIDARS; GLOBAL SCALE; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH PULSE ENERGIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-POWER; HO LASERS; LASER TRANSMITTERS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTERS; PULSED OPERATIONS; RARE EARTH AND TRANSITION METAL SOLID-STATE LASERS; RECEIVER SYSTEMS; SPACE-BASED; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TM LASERS; TUNABLILITY; WIND MEASUREMENTS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 60849099024     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.802740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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