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355 nm Laser Design for Atmospheric Measurements

Cutting Edge Optronics, Inc.

St. Charles, MO

Developed laser that uses innovative cooling methods to produce a smaller unit with better beam quality and improved stability in a single frequency laser.

Whisper MinislabTM Pumphead

• Laser output operates at a wavelength of 355 nm and has a repetition rate of 250 Hz and pulse energy of 14 mJ.
• Use of conduction cooling provides long-term reliability of the systems and can be easily adapted to space borne applications.
• Improved beam pointing, pulse energy, and frequency stability.
• The laser was ruggedized sufficiently to operate on a benign aircraft platform. NASA, NOAA, and industry are seeking such lasers for a number of applications, with Doppler lidar systems for measuring atmospheric wind profiles being one of the most important.

• CEO has commercialized a component of the laser system, the diode pump module, used in the system's amplifiers. A customer has received two units and applied them to the companies manufacturing process.
• Potential clients looking to incorporate the diode pump into lasers used for corneal surgery and commercial lidar activities.

• NASA GSFC is repairing a Phase-3 contract with CEO to develop the unit for use in the NASA ER-2 aircraft as the transmitter for an atmospheric wind profiler using Doppler lidar measurements.

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