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Fiber-based laser transmitter at 1.57 micrometers for remote sensing of atmospheric carbon dioxide from satellites
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Puc, Gabe Stephen, Mark A. Engin, Doruk Hasselbrack, William Mangan, Brian Yu, Anthony W. Storm, Mark Chen, Jeffrey R. Gonzalez, Brayler Nicholson, Jeffrey W. Wu, Stewart Wisk, Patrick Mathason, Brian Numata, Kenji Yan, Man DeSantolo, Anthony Abshire, James B. Han, Lawrence Allan, Graham R. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Over the past 20 years, NASA Goddard has successfully developed space-based lidar for remote sensing studies of the Earth and planets. The lidar in all missions to date have used diode pumped Nd:YAG laser transmitters. Recently we have been concentrating work on developing integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar to measure greenhouse gases, with the goal of measurements from space. Due to the absorption spectrum of CO2 a fiber-based master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser with a tunable seed source is an attractive laser choice. Fiber-based lasers offer a number of potential advantages for space, but since they are relatively new, challenges exist in developing them. In order to reduce risks for new missions using fiber-based lasers, we developed a 30- month plan to mature the technology of a candidate laser transmitter for space-based CO2 measurements to TRL-6. This work is also intended to reduce development time and costs and increase confidence in future mission success. |
| File Size | 232173 |
| Page Count | 3 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150021205 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7mq01w4j |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-10-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fiber Lasers Laser Amplifiers Remote Sensing and Sensors Fiber Devices and Optical Amplifiers Lidar Differential Absorption Lidar Laser Outputs Atmospheric Composition Transmitters Greenhouse Effect Power Amplifiers Carbon Dioxide Absorption Spectra Remote Sensing Optical Radar Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
