Efficient 1.6 micron laser source for methane DIAL

Timothy Shuman; Ralph Burnham; Amin R. Nehrir; Syed Ismail; Johnathan W. Hair; Tamer Refaat

doi:10.1117/12.2024383

17 September 2013 Efficient 1.6 micron laser source for methane DIAL

Timothy Shuman, Ralph Burnham, Amin R. Nehrir, Syed Ismail, Johnathan W. Hair, Tamer Refaat

Proceedings Volume 8872, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring XIV; 88720A (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024383
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and on a per molecule basis has a warming influence 72 times that of carbon dioxide over a 20 year horizon. Therefore, it is important to look at near term radiative effects due to methane to develop mitigation strategies to counteract global warming trends via ground and airborne based measurements systems. These systems require the development of a time-resolved DIAL capability using a narrow-line laser source allowing observation of atmospheric methane on local, regional and global scales. In this work, a demonstrated and efficient nonlinear conversion scheme meeting the performance requirements of a deployable methane DIAL system is presented. By combining a single frequency 1064 nm pump source and a seeded KTP OPO more than 5 mJ of 1.6 μm pulse energy is generated with conversion efficiencies in excess of 20%. Even without active cavity control instrument limited linewidths (50 pm) were achieved with an estimated spectral purity of ~95%. Tunable operation over 400 pm (limited by the tuning range of the seed laser) was also demonstrated. This source demonstrated the critical needs for a methane DIAL system motivating additional development of the technology.

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Timothy Shuman, Ralph Burnham, Amin R. Nehrir, Syed Ismail, Johnathan W. Hair, and Tamer Refaat "Efficient 1.6 micron laser source for methane DIAL", Proc. SPIE 8872, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring XIV, 88720A (17 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024383

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