Publications
Papers and presentations
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2026
Pulsed Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser for Solar-Suppressed LiDAR Sensing: A Candidate for Counter-UAS Ablative Effects?
F. W. Hersman et al.
SPIE Sensors + Imaging 2026 (Security + Defence), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Conference 14286, High-Power Lasers and Technologies for Optical Countermeasures IV. Invited paper 14286-1. September 14, 2026. In press
2025
Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser LiDAR Network for Enhanced Space Domain Awareness
F. W. Hersman, M. Briggs, J. Distelbrink, J. Ketel, S. Ketel, I. C. Ruset
Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, Maui, Hawaii. Poster, SDA Systems & Instrumentation track. September 2025.
2016
Power scaling of a wavelength-narrowed diode laser system for pumping alkali vapors
F. W. Hersman, J. H. Distelbrink, J. Ketel, J. Wilson, D. W. Watt
Proc. SPIE 9729, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications IX, 972905. 2016.
2014
Scalable pump source for diode pumped alkali laser
F. W. Hersman, J. H. Distelbrink, J. Ketel, D. Sargent, D. W. Watt
Proc. SPIE 8962, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications VII, 89620E. 2014.
2005
Spectrally narrowed external-cavity high-power stack of laser diode arrays
H. Zhu, I. C. Ruset, F. W. Hersman
Optics Letters 30, 1342-1344. June 2005.