This new, faster-tuning etalon technology will be approriate not only for NASA DIAL/IPDA-type LIDAR systems, but also for other NASA remote-sensing tasks requiring rapidly-tunable wavelength discrimination. The ruggedness of the design will ensure the ability to use such etalons in airborne and space applications, as well as with ground systems.
Non-NASA applications will be similar to NASA applications for precise, rapidly-tunable optical filters for sensing systems of all kinds, including those in rugged environments (airborne, shipborne, etc).
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