Characteristics of sodium guidestars created by the 50-watt FASOR and first closed-loop AO results at the Starfire Optical Range

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Denman, Craig A ^a   Drummond, Jack D ^a   Eickhoff, Mark L ^a,b   Fugate, Robert Q ^a,c   Hillman, Paul D ^a   Novotny, Steven J ^a   Telle, John M ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Nd:YAG; Single frequency; Sodium guidestar; Sum frequency generation (SFG)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; WAVEFRONTS;

ND:YAG LASERS; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SODIUM GUIDESTARS; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION (SFG);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33749388733     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.695916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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