Progress toward a 50-watt facility-class sodium guidestar pump laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1010-1020

  Fugate, Robert Q ^a   Denmark, Craig A ^a   Hillman, Paul D ^a   Moore, Gerald T ^a   Telle, John M ^a   De La Rue, Imelda A ^a   Drummond, Jack D ^a   Spinhirne, James M ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

589 nm sum frequency generator; Adaptive optics; Nd: YAG injection locked laser; Sodium guidestar

Indexed keywords

589 NM SUM-FREQUENCY-GENERATORS; ND:YAG INJECTION-LOCKED LASER; SODIUM GUIDESTAR; STARFIRE OPTICAL RANGE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BACKSCATTERING; CAMERAS; LASER BEAMS; LITHIUM; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SENSORS; SODIUM;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 11144303416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.556871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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