Fiber Raman laser development for multiconjugate adaptive optics with sodium laser guide stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4494, Issue , 2002, Pages 271-275

  Hackenberg, Wolfgang ^a   Bonaccini, Domenico ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBER RAMAN LASER; MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; SINGLE LASER GUIDE; SODIUM LASER GUIDE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036394918     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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