Efficient, space-based, PM 100W thulium fiber laser for pumping Q-switched 2um Ho:YLF for global winds and carbon dioxide lidar

Doruk Engin; Brian Mathason; Mark Storm

doi:10.1117/12.2275616

30 August 2017 Efficient, space-based, PM 100W thulium fiber laser for pumping Q-switched 2μm Ho:YLF for global winds and carbon dioxide lidar

Doruk Engin, Brian Mathason, Mark Storm

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Proceedings Volume 10406, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring 2017; 104060B (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275616
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Global wind measurements are critically needed to improve and extend NOAA weather forecasting that impacts U.S. economic activity such as agriculture crop production, as well as hurricane forecasting, flooding, and FEMA disaster planning.¹ NASA and the 2007 National Research Council (NRC) Earth Science Decadal Study have also identified global wind measurements as critical for global change research. NASA has conducted aircraft-based wind lidar measurements using 2 um Ho:YLF lasers, which has shown that robust wind measurements can be made. Fibertek designed and demonstrated a high-efficiency, 100 W average power continuous wave (CW) 1940 nm thulium (Tm)- doped fiber laser bread-board system meeting all requirements for a NASA Earth Science spaceflight 2 μm Ho:YLF pump laser. Our preliminary design shows that it is possible to package the laser for high-reliability spaceflight operation in an ultra-compact ~ 2″x8″x14″ size and weight <8.5 lbs. A spaceflight 100 W polarization maintaining (PM) Tm laser provides a path to space for a pulsed, Q-switched 2 μm Ho:YLF laser with ~ 30-80 mJ/pulse range at 100-200 Hz repletion rates.

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Doruk Engin, Brian Mathason, and Mark Storm "Efficient, space-based, PM 100W thulium fiber laser for pumping Q-switched 2μm Ho:YLF for global winds and carbon dioxide lidar", Proc. SPIE 10406, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring 2017, 104060B (30 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275616

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