Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1994),
  • paper CTuP3

Frequency swept diode-pumped single-frequency Tm,Ho:YLiF4 laser for spaceborne Doppler lidar

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Diode laser-pumped thulium holmium sensitized yttrium lithium fluoride (Tm,Ho:YLiF4) is emerging as the most favored solid-state laser crystal for use in an Earth-orbiting 2 μn coherent Doppler lidar instrument such as the Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (LAWS). These lasers have benefitted from much recent effort in which improvements in several performance categories have been demonstrated.1,2,3 However, such applications demand precise spectral control and stability: for example, a LAWS instrument incorporating a scanning telescope with the design objective of 1 m s-1 velocity resolution requires a local oscillator with an intrinsic stability <1 MHz and frequency agility with rapid tunability over a ~6-GHz range for dynamic spacecraft-induced Doppier shift compensation.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Frequency Agile Diode Laser-Pumped Tm,Ho:YLiF4 Local Oscillator with 3.6 GHz Tuning Range

B.T. McGuckin, R.T. Menzies, and C. Esproles
ThC3 Coherent Laser Radar (CLR) 1995

Upconversion Studies in Laser Diode Pumped Tm,Ho:YLiF4

G. Hansson, A. Callenås, and C. Nelsson
ML13 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1993

Diode-Pumped, Long Pulse Length Ho:Tm:YLiF4 Laser at 10 Hz

Mahendra G. Jani, Norman P. Barnes, Keith E. Murray, and George E. Lockard
IL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1995

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved