High-order laser guide star performance for the Euro50 telescope

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1377-1383

  Fan, Chengyu ^a   Owner Petersen, Mette ^b   Andersen, Torben ^b   Ardeberg, Arne ^b  

^a ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES; EURO50 TELESCOPES; LASER POWER; STREHL RATIO;

LASERS;

EID: 17444411588     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001377     Document Type: Article

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