Laser transmitter/receiver system for earth-satellite-earth long-path absorption measurements of atmospheric trace species using the retroreflector in space

Kenichi Ozawa; Nobuhiko Koga; Nobuo Sugimoto; Yasunori Saito; Akio Nomura; Tetsuo Aoki; Toshikasu Itabe; Hiroo Kunimori

doi:10.1117/1.601595

1 December 1997 Laser transmitter/receiver system for earth-satellite-earth long-path absorption measurements of atmospheric trace species using the retroreflector in space

Kenichi Ozawa; Nobuhiko Koga; Nobuo Sugimoto; Yasunori Saito; Akio Nomura; Tetsuo Aoki; Toshikasu Itabe; Hiroo Kunimori

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Optical Engineering, 36(12), (1997). doi:10.1117/1.601595

Abstract

A laser transmitter/receiver system using a retroreflector in space (RIS) to experiment with earth-satellite-earth laser long-path absorption measurements of atmospheric trace species is described. The system employs two single-longitudinal-mode pulsed CO2 lasers to measure the atmospheric spectrum and a second-harmonic Nd:YAG laser for active satellite tracking using the image of the RIS reflection. Details of the laser system and the initial experiment are reported.

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Kenichi Ozawa, Nobuhiko Koga, Nobuo Sugimoto, Yasunori Saito, Akio Nomura, Tetsuo Aoki, Toshikasu Itabe, Hiroo Kunimori, "Laser transmitter/receiver system for earth-satellite-earth long-path absorption measurements of atmospheric trace species using the retroreflector in space," Optical Engineering 36(12), (1 December 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601595

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