High-gain double-pass pulsed dye amplifiers for laser guide stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3092, Issue , 1997, Pages 732-735

  Kapitan, Daniel ^a   Booth, H ^a   Murray, Graham J ^a   Hogan, G P ^a   Webb, Colin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Copper vapour lasers; Frequency lock; Phase modulation; Polarisation spectroscopy; Pulsed dye amplifiers; Sodium laser guide stars

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AMPLIFICATION; CHEMICAL LASERS; DYE LASERS; FLOW OF GASES; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; MULTIPLEXING; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SODIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STARS;

COPPER VAPOUR LASERS; DESIGN ISSUES; DOUBLE PASS; FREQUENCY LOCK; HIGH GAINS; HIGH-POWER; MASTER OSCILLATORS; MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLARISATION SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION SPECTROSCOPIES; PRE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED DYE AMPLIFIERS; SCALEABLE; SINGLE DYES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 4143087551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.270175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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