Mars laser hygrometer
We have designed and built a miniature near-IR tunable diode laser (TDL) spectrometer for measuring in situ the water vapor mixing ratio either in the Martian atmosphere or thermally evolved from Martian soil or ice samples.
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We have designed and built a miniature near-IR tunable diode laser (TDL) spectrometer for measuring in situ the water vapor mixing ratio either in the Martian atmosphere or thermally evolved from Martian soil or ice samples.
We have devised a hybridization scheme that, given suitable Fabri-Perot (F-P) ain medium, allows us to fabricate small, mechanically robust single frequency lasers in a wide spectral range, limited only by the transparency of the SiON material.
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High power 2.05-mu m Fabry-Perot and distributed feedback (DFB) ridge waveguide lasers fabricated from epitaxially grown InGaAsSb/AlGaAsSb/GaSb and InGaAs/InP hetero-structures are reported.
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The coherent Doppler lidar approach for acquiring global profilometry of tropospheric winds from Earth orbit is reliant on off-nadir beam scanning geometry for retrieval of vector winds by Doppler analysis of laser radiation backscattered by entrained aerosols and cloud particles.
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A multiple-write electron beam lithography techniques is described as linear filter on the grating spatial frequency spectrum.
the electro-optic r33, coefficients of poled poly(methylmethacrylate) films containing dyes with first hyperpolarizabilities that span nearly two orders of magnitude have been determined at 820 and 1300 nm by modulated ellipsometry.
The reverse saturable absorption and optical limiting response of metal phthalocyaninies can be enhanced by using the heavy-atom effect. Phthalocyanines containing heavy metal atoms, such as In, Sn, and Pb show nearly a factor of two enhancement in the ratio of effective excited-state to ground-state absorption cross sections compared to those containing lighter atoms, such as Al and Si. In an f/8 optical geometry, homogeneous solutions of heavy metal phthalocyanines, at 30% linear transmission, limit 8-ns, 532-nm laser pulses to less than or equal to 3 (micro)J (the energy for 50% probability of eye damage) for incident pulses up to 800 (micro)J.
Picosecond and nanosecod nonlinear transmission measurements were used to determine the excited singlet-and triplet-state absorption across sections at 532 nm for group IVA metalloid phthalocyanines.