Injection-seeded, single-frequency, Q-switched erbium:glass laser for remote sensing
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- 20 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 37 (24) , 5706-5709
Abstract
We have built and characterized an injection-seeded, Q-switched, flash-lamp-pumped, eye-safe Er:glass laser that is suitable for coherent remote sensing. The output of the device is a 400-ns, single-frequency, transform-limited pulse of 1 mJ at 1.552 μm.Keywords
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