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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 52, Issue 36, Pages 8732-8746Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.008732
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- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)
- DLR Space Administration by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology [50QW0501]
- European Space Agency ESA
- Cassidian Optronics
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The space-qualified design of a miniaturized laser for pulsed operation at a wavelength of 1064 nm and at repetition rates up to 10 Hz is presented. This laser consists of a pair of diode-laser pumped, actively q-switched Nd:YAG rod oscillators hermetically sealed and encapsulated in an environment of dry synthetic air. The system delivers at least 300 million laser pulses with 50 mJ energy and 5 ns pulse width (FWHM). It will be launched in 2017 aboard European Space Agency's Mercury Planetary Orbiter as part of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter, which, after a 6-years cruise, will start recording topographic data from orbital altitudes between 400 and 1500 km above Mercury's surface. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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