Tunable cw Nd laser with the end diode pumping for remote environmental monitoring

Author

Dubinskii, M.A. ; Schepler, K.L. ; Naumov, A.K. ; Semashko, V.V. ; Abdulsabirov, R.Yu. ; Korabieva, S.I.

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev. Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

546

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on what we believe to be the first tunable cw diode-pumped Nd/sup 3+/:KY/sub 3/F/sub 10/ laser. The continuous tunability (1053.6-1059.1 nm or 9442-9491 cm/sup -1/) obtained in this initial experiment allows for HBr contamination tracing as well as satellite-based H/sub 2/O and ground-based CO/sub 2/ detection.

Keywords

air pollution measurement; gas sensors; laser tuning; monitoring; neodymium; optical pumping; potassium compounds; remote sensing by laser beam; solid lasers; CO/sub 2/; H/sub 2/O; HBr; HBr contamination tracing; KY/sub 3/F/sub 10/:Nd; continuous tunability; end diode pumping; gas sensors; ground-based CO/sub 2/ detection; remote environmental monitoring; satellite-based H/sub 2/O detection; tunable cw Nd laser; tunable cw diode-pumped Nd/sup 3+/:KY/sub 3/F/sub 10/ laser; Absorption; Diodes; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Lenses; Neodymium; Optical materials; Pump lasers; Remote monitoring; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676614

Filename

676614