Design of laser system for subaru LGS AO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1088-1095

  Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Saito, Yoshihiko ^a   Saito, Norihito ^b   Akagawa, Kazuyuki ^c   Kamata, Yukiko ^a   Kanzawa, Tomio ^a   Kurakami, Tomio ^a   Takato, Naruhisa ^a   Colley, Steve ^a   Eldred, Michael ^a   Kane, Thomas ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^a   Oya, Shin ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Hattori, Masayuki ^a   Golota, Taras ^a   Dinkins, Matthew ^a   Kobayashi, Naoto ^d   Minowa, Yousuke ^d   Goto, Miwa ^e   Arimoto, Nobuo ^a   Wada, Satoshi ^b   Takami, Hideki ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Megaopt Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star; Photonic crystal fiber; Subaru telescope; Sum frequency laser

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; FUSED SILICA; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

LASER GUIDE STAR; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; SUBARU TELECOPE; SUM-FREQUENCY LASER;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 19944405414     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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