High-resolution lidar experiment for the thirty meter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pfrommer, Thomas ^a   Hickson, Paul ^a   She, Chiao Yao ^b   Vance, Joseph D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Lidar; Sodium layer

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; BACKSCATTERED PHOTONS; BEAM DIVERGENCE; COLLIMATION SYSTEM; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FAST COUNTING; FINITE THICKNESS; GROUND TELESCOPES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR; HYPERFINE; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; LIDAR; LIQUID MIRROR TELESCOPES; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; PHOTOMULTIPLIER DETECTORS; POWER-SPECTRA; PRIME-FOCUS; PULSED LASER; SATURATION EFFECTS; SKY COVERAGE; SODIUM LAYER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; VERTICAL DENSITY PROFILES; YAG;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DYE LASERS; LASERS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SODIUM;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66949162632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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