Patent attributes
A coherent Doppler lidar which can oscillate high energy pulses and output laser beams in a longer wavelength range of 1.5 μm to the atmosphere is provided. The coherent Doppler lidar has a pulse laser an oscillation wavelength of which is controlled by means of injection locking of a seed light output from a master laser, wherein the pulse laser is a type in which a laser medium is disposed in a resonator, a pulse light of a predetermined repetition frequency is input to the laser medium as an excitation light, whereby pulse laser oscillation is generated in the resonator to output pulse laser beams from the resonator, and the laser medium being a type which has at least a region having Tm, Ho:YAG ceramics, and is excited by the excitation light to output pulse laser beams in 2 μm wavelength band.
