Single-frequency Nd:YGG laser at 935 nm for future water-vapour DIAL systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7193, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Löhring, Jens ^a   Meissner, Ansgar ^a   Morasch, Valentin ^a   Becker, Peter ^a   Heddrich, Wolfgang ^b   Hoffmann, Dieter ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dial; Injection seeding; Lidar; Mixed garnet; Nd:YGG; Single frequency; Solid state lasers; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

DIAL; INJECTION SEEDING; LIDAR; MIXED GARNET; ND:YGG; SINGLE FREQUENCY; WATER VAPOUR;

GARNETS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER INJECTION; WATER VAPOR;

SOLID STATE DEVICES;

EID: 66749159159     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.814715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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