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Lasers
Diode laser generating 3-ns pulses for a high resolution lidar
S. M. Pershina, M. Ya. Grishina, V. A. Zavozina, V. S. Makarovb, V. N. Ledneva, A. N. Fedorova, A. V. Myasnikovc, A. V. Turinb a Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
c Lomonosov Moscow State University, P. K. Sternberg Astronomical Institute
Abstract:
An AlGaAs laser (907 nm, 0.2 μJ) with a 3-ns pulse duration and eye-safe energy density below 1 μJ cm-2 is developed for lidar application. The laser is composed of three stacked diodes in a plastic housing. An external pump current generator based on discrete elements with an FMMT417 bipolar transistor switch is assembled on a printed circuit board together with the laser. A lidar based on this laser and a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) as a detector is used to monitor aerosols with a resolution of 10 cm inside the tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory near the Elbrus volcano. An abrupt three-fold increase in aerosol emanation of yet unknown nature is recorded for the first time. The absence of the Earth's crust disturbance traces in the signal of a laser interferometer with a resolution of 1.6 × 10-11 m testifies to a high sensitivity of the lidar for monitoring geodynamic processes.
Keywords:
diode laser, lidar, magmatic gases, Earth's crust deformation, monitoring of geophysical processes.
Received: 26.02.2021
Citation:
S. M. Pershin, M. Ya. Grishin, V. A. Zavozin, V. S. Makarov, V. N. Lednev, A. N. Fedorov, A. V. Myasnikov, A. V. Turin, “Diode laser generating 3-ns pulses for a high resolution lidar”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 51:5 (2021), 423–426 [Quantum Electron., 51:5 (2021), 423–426]
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