Diode-pumped single-frequency-Nd:YGG-MOPA for water-vapor DIAL measurements: Design, setup and performance

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 917-935

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

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDIUM; BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; DIODE LASERS; DIODE-PUMPED; DIRECT GENERATION; ENERGY SCALING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; NARROW BANDS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; REPETITION RATE; ROD GEOMETRY; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASERS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY MODE; SLAB GEOMETRY; SPACE-BORNE; STABLE RESONATOR;

DIODES; GALLIUM; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL RADAR; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; WATER INJECTION;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79955923150     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-010-4314-1     Document Type: Article

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