20 W and 50 W solid-state sodium beacon Guidestar Laser Systems for the Keck I and Gemini South telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hankla, Allen K ^a   Bartholomew, Jarett ^a   Groff, Ken ^a   Lee, Ian ^a   McKinnie, Iain T ^a   Moule, Grant ^a   Rogers, Nathan ^a   Tiemann, Bruce ^a   Tracy, Allen J ^a   VanHoudt, Paul ^a   Adkins, Sean M ^b   D'Orgeville, Céline ^c  

^a Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

589 nm; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Sodium laser guidestar; Sum frequency generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); REMOTE CONTROL;

LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES (LMCT) (CO); MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; SODIUM LASER GUIDESTAR; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 33749384124     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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