New developments in short-pulse eye safe lasers pay the way for future LADARs and 3D mapping performances

Guerman Pasmanik; Kevin Latone; Alex Shilov; Eugeni Shklovsky; Alex Spiro; Larissa Tiour

doi:10.1117/12.609836

1 June 2005 New developments in short-pulse eye safe lasers pay the way for future LADARs and 3D mapping performances

Guerman Pasmanik, Kevin Latone, Alex Shilov, Eugeni Shklovsky, Alex Spiro, Larissa Tiour

Proceedings Volume 5792, Laser Source and System Technology for Defense and Security; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609836
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We have demonstrated that direct excitation of 3rd Stokes Raman emission in crystal can produce short (few nanosecond) eye-safe pulses. Produced beam has very high quality and the pulse energy can be as high as tens of millijoules. For pulsed diode pumped solid state lasers the demonstrated repetition rate was 250 Hz but higher repetition rates are certainly achievable. It is important that tested schemes do not have strict requirements on laser pump parameters, namely beam divergence and frequency bandwidth. The obtained results are very relevant to the development of eye-safe lasers, such as the new generation of rangefinders, target designators, and laser tracking and pin-pointing devices, as well as remote 2D and 3D imaging systems.

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Guerman Pasmanik, Kevin Latone, Alex Shilov, Eugeni Shklovsky, Alex Spiro, and Larissa Tiour "New developments in short-pulse eye safe lasers pay the way for future LADARs and 3D mapping performances", Proc. SPIE 5792, Laser Source and System Technology for Defense and Security, (1 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609836

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