The 81st JSAP Autumn Meeting, 2020

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Oral presentation

3 Optics and Photonics » 3.8 Optical measurement, instrumentation, and sensor

[8p-Z19-1~24] 3.8 Optical measurement, instrumentation, and sensor

Tue. Sep 8, 2020 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM Z19

Tatsutoshi Shioda(Saitama Univ.), Toshihiro Somekawa(Inst. for Laser Tech.), Minoru Tanabe(AIST), Takeo Minamikawa(Tokushima Univ.)

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

[8p-Z19-16] Injection-locked nanosecond pulsed laser for the Ca+ and Ca LiDAR

Megumi Otose1, Tetsuhito Watanabe1, Yuto Hayashi1, Chiaki Ohae2, Masayuki Katsuragawa1,2, Mitsumu K. Ejiri3, Takuji Nakamura3 (1.U. of Electro-Comms. Dep. of Eng. Sci., 2.U. of Electro-Comms. IAS, 3.National Institute of Polar Reseach)

Keywords:LiDAR, Injection-locked laser

We developed an Injection-locked nanosecond pulsed Ti:sapphire laser as a light source for the LiDAR observation of Ca and Ca+; the developed Ti:sapphire laser could simultaneously emit two wavelengths matched with the resonance lines of Ca and Ca+, respectively. We examined a lidar measurement by using the developed laser and successfully observed a thin layer of Ca+ around 100 km above the ground.