Design of PARSEC, the VLT laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 393-401

  Rabien, Sebastian ^a   Davies, R I ^a   Ott, T ^a   Li, J ^a   Hippler, S ^b   Neumann, U ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

LASER GUIDED STARS (LGS); VERY LARGE TELESCOPES (VLT);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038737121     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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