20 W and 50 W guidestar laser system update for the keck I and gemini south telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lee, Ian ^a   Jalali, Munib ^a   Prezkuta, Zachary ^a   Groff, Ken ^a   Roush, Jared ^a   Rogers, Nathan ^a   Andrews, Estelle ^a   Moule, Grant ^a   Tiemann, Bruce ^a   Hankla, Allen K ^a   Adkins, Sean M ^b   D'Orgeville, Céline ^c  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c University of Space Research Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES; CRITICAL STEPS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; LASER OSCILLATORS; LASER SYSTEMS; LOCKHEED MARTIN; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATORS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; LASERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SODIUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66249128115     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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