Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Lifetest of the High Output Maximum Efficiency Resonator (HOMER) Laser for the SAFFIRE Instrument on NASA’s DESDynI Project

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

We update the status of a diode-pumped, Nd:YAG oscillator that is the prototype laser for NASA’s DESDynI mission. After completing TRL-6 testing, this laser has fired over 5.5 billion shots in lifetesting.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Flight Qualification of the High Output Maximum Efficiency Resonator (HOMER) Laser for Space-based Remote Sensing Applications

Barry Coyle, Paul R. Stysley, Peter Rossoni, Robert Frederickson, Cheryl Salerno, Richard B. Kay, Demetrios Poulios, Bryan Blair, and Ken Cory
JTuD11 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2009

A Diode Pumped, Nd: YAG, Q-Switched Unstable Resonator Developed for Multi-Billion Shot, Spaced-Based Remote Sensing Applications

Donald B. Coyle, Richard B. Kay, Paul R. Stysley, and Demetrios Poulios
JTuC24 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2005

Ten Billion Shot Update of NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Laser Transmitter Systems

Paul Stysley, D. Barry Coyle, Demetrios Poulios, Erich Frese, Robert Switzer, Joe Thomes, and J. Bryan Blair
JTh5A.105 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2021

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved