NASA plans to launch ASCENDS in 2023 in according to the US National Research Council's 2007 Decadal Survey recommendation to accurately measure column CO2 concentrations using the IPDA technique. For ASCENDS mission NASA would need a pulsed singe frequency polarization maintaining (PM) laser system with >3.2mJ pulse energy, 3.2 kW peak power, repetition rate of 7.5kHz, and beam quality (M2) of <1.5. This proposed laser can be used for ASCENDS.
This eye-safe high pulse energy and high peak power single frequency fiber lasers can be used to build commercial lidar for ranging and gas monitoring applications, for optical sensing, fast scanning biomedical imaging, and scientific research.
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