Approaches for efficient coupling of lasers to telescopes with secondary mirror and baffle obscuration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4635, Issue , 2002, Pages 288-294

  Hemmati, H ^a   Page, N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axicon; Beam coupling; Beam slicer; Optical communications; Sub aperture

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PRISMS; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TELESCOPES;

BAFFLE OBSCURATION; BEAM COUPLING; CASSEGRAINIAN TELESCOPE; OPTICAL BEAM SLICER; SUB APERTURE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036049122     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.464108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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