NASA's future active remote sensing missions for earth science

Efficient High Power ns Pulsed Fiber Laser for Lidar and Laser Communications

“…For future NASA's deep space missions and Lidar applications, high energy pulsed fiber lasers have been considered to be an enabling technology to build high power transmitters [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. The next generation pulsed fiber laser requires a weight of smaller than 1kg, high pulse repetition rate (> 10 MHz for communications and > 10 kHz for Lidars), ns pulse width, > 10 W average output power and > 1 kW peak power at 1.06 micron and 1.55 micron, and overall efficiency higher than 20%.…”

Pulsed shaping high-energy fiber laser at low repetition rate

“…High energy pulsed fiber lasers are playing more and more important roles in many applications, such as laser sensing, laser imagery coherent Lidar, free space optical communications, and material processing due to their many advantages such as compact, light-weight, reliable operation, and high wall-plug efficiency [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. In eye safe wind-profiling Lidar applications, stable single-frequency oscillation, good pulse shape, a relatively long pulse width, linear polarized output are required at low repetition rate down to Hz level.…”

Pulse shaping fiber laser at 15 μm

“…Fiber lasers are playing an increasingly important role in laser applications. All-fiber-based pulsed fiber lasers are particularly promising for laser sensing, velocimetry, laser imagery coherent Lidar, and free space communications due to its high efficiency, compact size, reliable operation, the ease of alignment, and the possibility of autonomous operation [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Various types of high power and high energy fiber lasers have been developed.…”