Project Title:

Novel, Cobalt-Doped, Magnesium-Fluoride Lidar Aerosol Profiler

08.04-1802
NAS1-19007
Novel, Cobalt-Doped, Magnesium-Fluoride Lidar
	Aerosol Profiler
Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc.
	3404 N. Orange Blossom Trail
	Orlando, FL 32804
		M. Acharekar
(407-298-1802)

Abstract:

	A breadboard, eye-safe, continuously tunable, Co:MgF2, LIDAR for measurements of
vertical concentration profiles of atmospheric aerosols will be constructed. It will
use a new, room temperature, eye-safe laser based upon a proprietary Co:MgF2 crystal
that is currently the only tunable, room-temperature Co:MgF2 laser on the market.
This system will provide vertical concentration profiles of atmospheric aerosols
and can also be used for atmospheric remote sensing of water vapor, HC1, CH4, and
NO2. A differential-absorption LIDAR (DIAL) system will be assembled using a continuously
tunable, Co:MgF2 laser; steering optics; a compact, receiving telescope; a cooled
InSb detector; and a computer to record the DIAL signals and control and monitor
the laser wavelength.
An eye-safe, continuously tunable, Co:MgF2 laser for LIDAR could have a large market
for multiple systems in each urban area to provide vertical concentration profiles
of the atmospheric aerosols and to identify chemical species.

Potential Commercial Application:

Potential Commercial Applications:An eye-safe, continuously tunable, Co:MgF2 laser
for LIDAR could have a large market for multiple systems in each urban area to provide
vertical concentration profiles of the atmospheric aerosols and to identify chemical
species.