Tunable Nd:GSAG laser around 943 nm for water vapor detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7131, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kallmeyer, Frank ^a   Wanga, Xin ^a   Eichler, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential absorption LIDAR; Diode pumped solid state lasers; Quasi three level lasers

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; ABSORPTION STRENGTH; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; DIODE-PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS; LONG RANGE; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; QUASI-THREE-LEVEL LASERS; THREE-WAVELENGTHS; TUNING RANGES; WATER VAPOR DETECTION; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

AERODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL LASERS; FLOW OF GASES; GAS ABSORPTION; LASER RESONATORS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; TUNING; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 69849088562     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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