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  1. Laser ranging brings home the solar system

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    Tue, 1 May 2001

    … Planetary scientists have successfully used lasers to map the surfaces of planets, moons, and now an asteroid. Modern laser - ranging devices, called laser altimeters, bring a bit of truth to the ancient notion that we see things because rays emanate …

  2. LASER RANGING : Airborne lidar system finds hidden fault lines

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    Mon, 1 Jan 2007

    A team of British and Slovenian scientists has published the results of the first airborne lidar survey flown in Europe for the purpose of mapping earthquake-prone faults.

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  1. Laser ranging takes on industrial applications

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    Sat, 1 Apr 2000

    In the 1970s, as US industry sought to increase productivity through the use of newly evolving technologies such as robots, it became obvious that advances in areas such as vision, tactile sensing, programmable parts feeders, and machine intelligence would be required for robotic systems to attain

  2. PHOTODIODES- Resonant-tunneling detector counts photons

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    Fri, 1 Apr 2005

    … for quantum-cryptographic systems, single-photon detectors have other uses that extend from medical diagnosis to laser ranging . Avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes work as photon counters; however, their avalanche-multiplication …

  3. Eye-safe laser glass

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    Thu, 1 Aug 1996

    … erbium-doped glass, QX/ER, is designed as a laser material that can be used for eye-safe lasers in lidar and laser - ranging applications. Miniature lasers made from this material can be made to emit at 1.54 µm and can be Q-switched …

  5. Sensors Unlimited Wins DOD Contract for Advanced Detectors

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    Thu, 12 Jun 2003

    … rate, high-bandwidth, low-noise, focal-plane array and camera for active tracking, wave-front sensing, laser ranging , imaging, and scoring. Sensors Unlimited's proposal was unique in that all of these objectives will be accomplished …

  6. Laser rangefinder

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    Sun, 1 Oct 1995

    … eye-safe semiconductor laser rangefinder/rifle scope uses coaxial optics with only one objective for sighting and laser ranging functions. To measure range, a hunter would press a button and within a second obtain a three-digit range reading …

  7. Ultrafast, THz, fiber lasers focus of Marketplace Seminar Technology Forum

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    Thu, 5 Jan 2012

    … microscopy; ophthalmology, surgery, and dissection; thin-film metrology and mask repair; and tasks such as satellite laser ranging , THz generation, and spectroscopy. Huber discusses how quickly ultrafast lasers will grow in these markets and what …

  8. NASA ICESat-2 laser systems contract awarded to Fibertek

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    Tue, 31 May 2011

    … land Elevation Satellite-2 ( ICESat-2 ), the second generation of the ICESat observatories, will use precision laser - ranging techniques to measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Fibertek (Herndon, VA) was selected …

  9. Aurea Technology single-photon counting module offers QE adjustable up to 25%

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    Thu, 9 Jun 2011

    … single photon counting, Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), fluorescence, spectroscopy, eye safe laser ranging LIDAR, Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). About AUREA Technology AUREA …

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