Space qualified laser transmitter for NASA's ICESat-2 mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8599, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sawruk, Nicholas W ^a   Stephen, Mark A ^b   Litvinovitch, Slava ^a   Edelman, Joel E ^a   Albert, Michael M ^a   Edwards, Ryan E ^a   Culpepper, Charles F ^a   Rudd, William J ^a   Fakhoury, Elias ^a   Hovis, Floyd E ^a  

^a FIBERTEK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

532 nm; diode pumped; frequency doubled; LBO; MOPA; Q switch; solid state; space qualified

Indexed keywords

532 NM; DIODE-PUMPED; FREQUENCY DOUBLED; LBO; MOPA; Q-SWITCHES; SOLID-STATE; SPACE QUALIFIED;

NASA; SOLID STATE LASERS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 84878200523     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2005590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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