Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • R. L. Byer

      Pages 1-2

3. Remote Sensing — An Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. NASA Plans for Spaceborne Lidar: The Earth Observing System

      • R. J. Curran

      Pages 4-12

   3. Solid State Laser Technology — A NASA Perspective

      • F. Allario

      Pages 13-16

   4. Coherent and Incoherent Lidar — an Overview

      • R. T. Menzies

      Pages 17-21

   5. Remote Sensing from Space Platforms

      • E. V. Browell

      Pages 22-24

   6. Accommodation of a ND:YAG Lidar on a Polar Meteorological Satellite

      • A. Rosenberg, D. B. Hogan

      Pages 25-26

   7. Solid State Bistatic Lidar for Ionospheric Species Mapping and Precise Locating Lidar for the Tethered Satellite System

      • T. D. Wilkerson, H. G. Horak, R. R. Karl Jr., D. J. McComas, H. E. Spence

      Pages 27-29

4. Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Nd:YAG and Ruby Based Lidar Systems for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols

      • W. H. Fuller Jr.

      Pages 32-34

   3. Remote Sensing with a Tunable Alexandrite Laser Transmitter

      • C. L. Korb, G. K. Schwemmer, M. Dombrowski, R. H. Kagann

      Pages 35-37

   4. Miniature Laser Diode Pumped Nd:YAG Lasers

      • T. J. Kane, R. L. Byer

      Pages 38-41

   5. A Solid State Tunable Laser for Resonance Measurements of Atmospheric Sodium

      • C. R. Philbrick, J. L. Button, C. S. Gardner

      Pages 42-46

5. Advances in Laser Concepts — Diode Pumped Nd:YAG

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Laser Diode Arrays for Pumping Nd:YAG

      • M. Ettenberg

      Pages 48-49

   3. Progress in Diode Array Development

      • D. Scifres, P. Cross, H. Kung

      Pages 50-52

6. Review of Tunable Solid State Laser Systems

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Review of the Tunable Alexandrite Laser Performance

      • J. C. Walling

      Pages 54-56

   3. Tunable Laser Crystal Host Systems

      • H. Jenssen

      Pages 57-59

The Workshop on Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing was held at Stanford University in October 1984 to assess the state of the art in tunable solid state lasers for remote sensing from satellite platforms. The value of conducting global remote sensing measurements of atmospheric chemistry, climate, and weather in the 1990s is now established. What is not yet defined, however, is the status of the developing tunable laser technology that must meet both the scientific requirements and the space platform constraints. This workshop was convened by the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to assess the status and progress in tunable solid state laser sources for remote sensing. The workshop was organized to facilitate information exchange across a number of technologies from remote sensing requirements to crystal growth of the materials important for the development of the tunable laser sources. The emphasis was on the recent developments in tunable solid state laser sources necessary to meet the future transmitter requirements for global remote sensing. A goal of the workshop was to form recommendations to NASA on the current and future prospects for solid state laser technology that will allow remote sensing measurements from air, shuttle, and free-flying satellite platforms. The emphasis was on solid state laser sources because they offer the best potential for meeting the demanding requirements of compact size, good efficiency, and long operational lifetimes required for future space station and free-flying platform operation.

• crystal
• laser
• laser technology
• remote sensing
• satellite

• W.W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Robert L. Byer

• Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Eric K. Gustafson

• Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Rick Trebino

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