• DocumentCode
    521352
  • Title

    Quantum Cascade laser for elastic-backscattering LIDAR measurement

  • Author

    Paschke, Katrin ; Liu, Peter Q. ; Michel, Anna P.M. ; Smith, James ; Moshary, Fred ; Gmachl, Claire

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present an experimental demonstration for an elastic-backscattering LIDAR system measurement using a Quantum Cascade laser (QCL). The laser emits a peak power of above 13W at 80K and with a wavelength of 4.5µm.
  • Keywords
    Collimators; Laser beams; Laser radar; Lenses; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Power generation; Power lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500969