Opto-mechanical commissioning of the GLAS Rayleigh laser guide star for the WHT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Martin, Olivier ^a   Agócs, Tibor ^a   Cano, Diego ^a   Gregory, Thomas ^a   Van Der Hoevena, Michiel ^a   Jolley, Paul ^b   Martín, Carlos ^a   Morrisc, Tim ^c   Picó, Sergio ^a   Pita, Renee ^a   Rey, Jürg ^a  

^a ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Beam Launch System; commissioning; Laser Guide Star; Rayleigh; WHT

Indexed keywords

BEAM LAUNCH SYSTEM; COMMISSIONING; LASER GUIDE STAR; RAYLEIGH; WHT;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; LASERS; LAUNCHING; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 66949134267     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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