Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing -

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Sommaire:
I Remote Sensing - An Overview.- NASA Plans for Spaceborne Lidar: The Earth Observing System.- Solid State Laser Technology - A NASA Perspective.- Coherent and Incoherent Lidar - an Overview.- Remote Sensing from Space Platforms.- Accommodation of a ND: YAG Lidar on a Polar Meteorological Satellite.- Solid State Bistatic Lidar for Ionospheric Species Mapping and Precise Locating Lidar for the Tethered Satellite System.- II Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing.- Nd:YAG and Ruby Based Lidar Systems for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols.- Remote Sensing with a Tunable Alexandrite Laser Transmitter.- Miniature Laser Diode Pumped Nd:YAG Lasers.- A Solid State Tunable Laser for Resonance Measurements of Atmospheric Sodium.- III Advances in Laser Concepts - Diode Pumped Nd:YAG.- Laser Diode Arrays for Pumping Nd:YAG.- Progress in Diode Array Development.- IV Review of Tunable Solid State Laser Systems.- Review of the Tunable Alexandrite Laser Performance.- Tunable Laser Crystal Host Systems.- Color Center Lasers: A Brief Review.- An Overview of Tunable Diode Laser Technology Development.- V The Titanium Sapphire Tunable Laser System.- An Evaluation of the Ti:Sapphire Tunable Laser System.- Flashlamp Pumped Ti:Al2O3 Laser Studies.- Preliminary Experiments on Ti:Al2O3 Laser.- Ti:Al2O3 Laser Pumped by a Frequency Doubled Nd:YAG Laser.- Absorption and Fluorescence of Alexandrite and of Titanium in Sapphire and Glass.- VI Advanced Laser Concepts - The Slab Geometry.- Progress in Solid-State Slab-Lasers.- Scalability of High Average Power Solid State Lasers.- Modeling Studies and Experimental Performance of Slab Geometry Lasers.- Slab Laser Development at MSNW: The Gemini and Centurion Systems.- VII Progress in Garnet Host Solid State Lasers.- Advanced CrystallineLaser Materials.- Use of Garnet Crystals as Laser Hosts.- Performance Study of a Cr:Nd:GSGG Laser.- VIII Growth of Lasers and Nonlinear Materials.- Growth of Codoped Garnet Crystals.- Growth of KTP.- Growth of New Laser Crystals.- Growth of Nd:YAG and Cr, Nd:GScGG. A Comparative Study.- Growth of Alexandrite and Garnet Laser Crystals.- IX Nonlinear Frequency Conversion and Tunable Sources.- Wavelength Conversion via Stimulated Raman Scattering.- Efficient Frequency Conversion of Laser Sources in Nonlinear Crystals.- Infrared Frequency Generation in Chalcopyrite Crystals AgGaS2 and AgGaGe2.- Nonlinear Optics in Single Crystal Fibers.- Laser Action of H3 Color Center in Diamond.- List of Conference Attendees.- Index of Contributors.