Development and testing of a risk reduction high energy laser transmitter for high spectral resolution lidar and Doppler winds lidar

Jinxue Wang; Victor Leyva; Floyd E. Hovis

doi:10.1117/12.736039

24 September 2007 Development and testing of a risk reduction high energy laser transmitter for high spectral resolution lidar and Doppler winds lidar

Jinxue Wang, Victor Leyva, Floyd E. Hovis

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Proceedings Volume 6681, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring VIII; 668107 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.736039
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Spaceborne 3-dimensional winds lidar and spaceborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) for aerosol and clouds are among the high priority future space missions recommended by the recent National Research Council (NRC) Decadal Review. They are expected to provide the important three dimensional winds data and aerosol data critically needed to improve climate models and numerical weather forecasting. HSRL and winds lidar have a common requirement for high energy solid-state lasers with output wavelengths at 1064nm, 532nm and 355nm, which can be achieved with Nd:YAG lasers and 2nd and 3rd harmonic generations. For direct detection winds lidar, only the 355nm output is needed. One of the key development needs is the demonstration of laser transmitter subsystem. Top issues include power and thermal management, lifetime, high energy UV operations, damage and contamination. Raytheon and its partner, Fibertek, have designed and built a space-qualifiable high energy Nd:YAG laser transmitter with funding from Raytheon Internal Research and Development (IR&D). It is intended to serve as a risk-reduction engineering unit and a test bed for the spaceborne HRSL and direct-detection Doppler winds Lidar missions. Close to 900 mJ/pulse at1064nm and a wall-plug efficiency of 6.5% have been achieved with our risk reduction laser. It is currently being characterized and tested at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. In this paper, we will discuss the design, build and testing results of this risk reduction high energy laser transmitter.

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Jinxue Wang, Victor Leyva, and Floyd E. Hovis "Development and testing of a risk reduction high energy laser transmitter for high spectral resolution lidar and Doppler winds lidar", Proc. SPIE 6681, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring VIII, 668107 (24 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.736039

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