Implementation of a laser traffic control system supporting laser guide star adaptive optics on Mauna Kea

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 440-451

  Summers, Douglas ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^b   Stomski, Paul ^a   Brighton, Allan ^c   Wainscoat, Richard ^d   Wizinowich, Peter ^a   Gaessler, Wolfgang ^e   Sebag, Jacques ^c   Boyer, Corinne ^c   Vermeulen, Tom ^f   Denault, Tony ^d   Simons, Doug ^c   Takami, Hideki ^g   Veillet, Christian ^f  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^f CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser control software; Laser guide star; Mauna Kea

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LASER BEAMS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

LASER TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (LTCS);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038274164     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459062     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Mauna Kea Laser Guide Star Technical Working Group, "Laser Traffic Control on Mauna Kea Report", June 1997
2. Peter Wizinowich, Doug Simons, Hideki Takami, Christian Veillet, Richard Wainscoat, "Coordination and Use of Laser beacons for Adaptive Optics on Mauna Kea", SPIE Proc. 3353, 1998
3. CARA, "Laser Traffic Control System (LTCS) Software Design Book", 2001
4. CARA, "Mauna Kea LTCS URL Interface Specification", 2002
5. Y. Hayano, W. Gaessler, H. Takami, N. Takato, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; Y. Minowa, Univ. of Tokyo, "Rayleigh scatter measurement of Keck LGS by Subaru telescope", SPIE Proc. 4839-58, 2002.