Abstract
NASA is developing a miniature lidar instrument for the remote sensing of Martian atmospheric water vapor from the surface of Mars. The 935-950 nm range has been chosen for the instrument operating wavelength since strong water vapor absorption lines, high electrical efficiency lasers and good quantum efficiency photon counting detectors are available. The laser transmitter approaches are a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), laser diode, a Nd-doped host, diode pumped, passively Q-switched microchip laser, and a Fabry-Ferot laser diode with external cavity fiber grating feedback.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 186-187 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Volume | 11 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Baltimore, MD, USA Duration: May 18 1997 → May 23 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering