Airborne Flight-able Precision and Fast Tunable Seed-laser System

Completed TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)

Description

Our new technology improves the S/N, reliability and flexibility, reduces the power consumption, size, mass, and cost, and allows addition of more wavelength channels without penalties. This new technology will benefit science missions to remotely measure concentrations of trace gases, as well as water vapor and oxygen.

Our goal is to drastically improve the frequency precision while retaining the fast tuning speed of widely tunable lasers

Benefits

N/A

Details

Technology area	Sensors and Instruments > Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors > Lasers
Program	Center Independent Research & Development: GSFC IRAD (GSFC IRAD)
Lead organization	Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Start date	2012-10-01
End date	2013-09-01

Project contacts

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Terence A Doiron — terence.a.doiron@nasa.gov
Jeffrey R Chen — jeffrey.r.chen@nasa.gov
Guangning Yang — guangning.yang-1@nasa.gov
James B Abshire — james.b.abshire@nasa.gov
Kenji Numata — kenji.numata-1@nasa.gov
Stewart T Wu — stewart.t.wu@nasa.gov

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