Fiber lasers: new effective sources for coherent lidars

Jean-Pierre Cariou; Matthieu Valla; Guillaume Canat

doi:10.1117/12.741584

3 October 2007 Fiber lasers: new effective sources for coherent lidars

Jean-Pierre Cariou, Matthieu Valla, Guillaume Canat

Proceedings Volume 6750, Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing III; 675007 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741584
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2007, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Originally developed for telecommunications, fiber lasers are now becoming new effective sources for coherent lidars allowing new instruments to be designed. The advent of the double clad fiber, along with advances in semiconductor pump diode sources, have allowed rapid power scaling of both pulsed and CW fiber sources. The unique capabilities of fiber sources, coupled with significant commercial and academic progress in implementation, have driven fiber technology to enter active remote sensing markets as signal sources and amplification stages for direct detection lidars and coherent lidars as well. Some interesting fiber lasers benefit from a good transmission in the near infrared spectral band. However, useful wavelengths have to be tuned between absorption H20 and CO2 lines. Eye safety may be an issue for atmospheric lidars. Above 1.4 µm, an eye-safe operation is possible even with multi-watt lasers. Low power fiber lasers using single mode fibers have a good spatial quality. However, higher power lasers and amplifiers need larger fiber cores, to store enough energy and to avoid non linear effects. Trade-off between high power, single mode operation, stable polarization and spectral quality need to be considered for coherent lidars.

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Jean-Pierre Cariou, Matthieu Valla, and Guillaume Canat "Fiber lasers: new effective sources for coherent lidars", Proc. SPIE 6750, Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing III, 675007 (3 October 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741584

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