Water vapor differential absorption lidar measurements using a diode-pumped all-solid-state laser at 935 nm

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 905-915

  Fix, A ^a   Ehret, G ^a   Lohring J ^b   Hoffmann, D ^b   Alpers, M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ACTIVE MEDIUM; ALL SOLID-STATE LASERS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; DIODE-PUMPED; FREQUENCY-CONVERSION PROCESS; INJECTION SEEDING; LENGTH CONTROL; LIDAR SYSTEMS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE FREQUENCY OPERATION; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASERS; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL PURITY; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; WATER VAPOR DIAL;

DIODES; GALLIUM; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSE REPETITION RATE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79955886536     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-010-4310-5     Document Type: Article

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