Materials and devices for laser remote sensing and optical communication
Subtitle: symposium held March 25-27, 2008, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
By: editors, Astrid Aksnes, Farzin Amzajerdian
Series: Materials Research Society symposium proceedings -- v. 1076; Materials Research Society symposia proceedings -- v. 1076.
Publisher: Materials Research Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Warrendale, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781605110462
Subjects: Optical detectors; Detectors; Congresses; Lasers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: TLaser Remote Sensing Instruments; title: Role of Lidar Technology in Future NASA Space Missions  -- Farzin Amzajerdian; title: ALADIN Doppler Wind Lidar and Related Programs at EADS Astrium  -- Didier Morancais, Frederic Fabre and Yves Toulemont; title: Geospatial Remote Sensing Using Advanced Sensor Systems  -- A. Vaseashta; title: Development Effort of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Laser Transmitter  -- George B. Shaw, Anthony W. Yu and Anne-Marie D. Novo-Gradac; title: All Fiber Coherent Doppler LIDAR for Wind Sensing  -- Toshiyuki Ando, Shumpei Kameyama, Kimio Asaka, Yoshihito Hirano, Hisamichi Tanaka and Hamaki Inokuchi; title: Linear FMCW Laser Radar for Precision Range and Vector Velocity Measurements  -- Diego F. Pierrottet, Farzin Amzajerdian, Larry Petway, Bruce Barnes, George Lockard and Manuel Rubio; title: Simplified Homodync Detection for Linear FM Lidar  -- Peter Adany, Chris Allen and Rongqing Hui; title: Fiber Optic and Semiconductor Lasers --; title: Microstructured Soft Glass Fibers for Advanced Fiber Lasers  -- Axel Schulzgen, Li Li, Xiushan Zhu, Shigeru Suzuki, Valery L. Temyanko, Jacques Albert and Nasser Peyghambarian; title: Efficient High Power ns Pulsed Fiber Laser for Lidar and Laser Communications  -- Jian Liu; title: Electrically Pumped Photonic Crystal Distributed Feedback Quantum Cascade Lasers  -- Manijeh Razeghi, Yanbo Bai, Steven Slivken and Wei Zhang; title: Development of Low-Cost Multi-Watt Yellow Lasers Using InGaAs/GaAs Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers  -- Mahmoud Fallahi, Li Fan, Chris Hessenius, Jorg Hader, Hongbo Li, Jerome Moloney, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan Koch and James Murray; title: Quantum Design of Active Semiconductor Materials for Targeted Wavelengths  -- Jerome Moloney, Joerg Hader and Stephan W. Koch; title: Advanced Laser Diode Cooling Concepts  -- Ryan Feeler, Jeremy Junghans, Edward Stephens, Greg Kemner, Fred Barlow, Jared Wood and Aicha Elshabini; title: Photodetection Devices --; title: Single Carrier Initiated Low Excess Noise Mid-Wavelength Infrared Avalanche Photodiode Using InAs-GaSb Strained Layer Superlattice  -- Koushik Banerjee, Shubhrangshu Mallick, Siddhartha Ghosh, Elena Plis, Jean Baptiste Rodriguez, Sanjay Krishna and Christoph Grein; title: Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Based Detector Arrays for Infrared Imaging  -- Sarath Gunapala, Sumith Bandara, Cory Hill, David Ting, John Liu, Jason Mumolo, Sam Keo and Edward Blazejewski; title: Infrared Detctor Activities at NASA Langley Research Center  -- M. Nurul Abedin, Tamer F. Refaat, Oleg V. Sulirna and Farzin Amzajerdian; title: Structural and Photoconducting Properties of MBE and MOCVD Grown III-Nitride Double-Heterostructures  -- Sindy Hauguth-Frank, Vadim Lebedev, Katja Tonisch, Henry Romanus, Thomas Kups, Hans-Joachim Buhner, Gerd Jager, Oliver Ambacher and Andreas Schober; title: Nanocrystal and Photonic Structure and Devices --; title: Buried Silicon Nanocrystals Based High Gain Coefficient SiO[subscript 2]/SiO[subscript x]/SiO[subscript 2] Strip-Loaded Waveguide Amplifier on Quartz Substrate  -- Cheng-Wei Lian and Gong-Ru Lin; title: Surface Modification of ZrO[subscript 2] Nanoparticles as Functional Component in Optical Nanocomposite Devices  -- Ninjbadgar Tsedev and Georg Garnweitner; title: Temperature Dependent Fluorescence of Nanocrystalline Ce-Doped Garnets for Use as Thermographic Phospbors  -- Rachael Hansel, Steve Allison and Greg Walker; title: Non-Selective Optical Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Devices Based on a-SiC:H Multilayer Heterostuctures  -- Manuela Vieira, Miguel Fernandes, Paula Lauro, Manuel Augusto Vieira, Manuel Barata and Alessandro Fantoni; title: Tailoring Quantum Dot Saturable Absorber Mirrors for Ultra-Short Pulse Generation -- Matthew Lumb, Edmund Clarke, Dominic Farrell, Michael Damzen and Ray Murray.