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Optimizing coherent lidar performance with graded-reflectance laser resonator optics

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Abstract

We demonstrate how the design of graded-reflectance output coupler unstable laser cavities may be tailored to significantly enhance the overall power transmission efficiency of a given laser system relative to that of a conventional diffractively coupled unstable resonator. The importance of these findings in coherent lidar applications is explained with particular emphasis on projected space-based systems.

© 1992 Optical Society of America

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