The ESA Living Planet Program is designed to find out more about our changing Earth. The Earth Explorer missions are the research missions of the Living Planet Program employing satellites with new laser measurement techniques. Among these, LIDAR-based instruments represent a recent promising area for monitoring wind, aerosols or trace gas pollutants. One main challenge…
A story of a manufacturing engineer who found out his laser was not flat-topped as it was supposed to be. So that’s why the treated parts were failing quality control checks
Beam profiling in a nutshell Take a look at these images: You don’t have to be an expert to see that the six-month profile is less efficient than the factory one. These images show the natural degradation of a laser. It is through beam profiling that one would be aware that there are changes and…