Fiber Raman laser for sodium guide star

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 330-339

  Murray, James T ^a   Roberts Jr , W Thomas ^a   Austin, William L ^a   Powell, Richard C ^b   Bonaccini, Domenico ^c  

^a Lite Cycles Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SODIUM; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; APPLICATION SPECIFICS; DOPPLER BROADENING; FIBER RAMAN LASERS; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; GUIDE STAR LASERS; GUIDE STARS; HIGH-POWER; LONG FIBERS; MESOSPHERIC SODIUMS; MODE SPACINGS; RAMAN GAINS;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 0010885260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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