Laser guide star return flux simulations based on observed sodium density profiles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Holzlöhner, Ronald ^a   Rochester, Simon M ^b   Pfrommer, Thomas ^c   Bonaccini Calia, Domenico ^a   Budker, Dmitry ^b   Higbie, James M ^d   Hackenberg, Wolfgang ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric propagation; Laser beam transmission; Laser guide stars; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; DENSITY PROFILE; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; FLUX SIMULATION; GAS DENSITY; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; LASER BEAM TRANSMISSION; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER GUIDE STARS; LASER PARAMETERS; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

LASER BEAMS; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

SODIUM;

EID: 77957835001     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856721     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Holzlöhner, R., Rochester, S. M., Bonaccini Calia, D., Budker, D., Higbie, J. M. and Hackenberg, W., "Optimization of cw sodium laser guide star efficiency". Astron. & Astrophys. 510, A20 (2010)
2. Holzlöhner, R., Bonaccini Calia, D. and Hackenberg, W., "Physical Optics Modeling and Optimization of Laser Guide Star Propagation". Proc. SPIE 7015, pp. 701521-701521-11 (2008)
3. Fried, D.L., "Optical resolution through a randomly inhomogeneous medium for very long and very short exposures", J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56, pp.1372 (1966)
4. Chang, F. C., Mott, H., and Webb, W.E., "Depolarization of an Uncollimated Laser Beam in a Turbulent Medium", J. of the Franklin Inst. 296, pp. 347-358 (1973)
5. Pfrommer, T., P. Hickson, and C-Y. She, "A large-aperture sodium fluorescence LIDAR with very high resolution for mesopause dynamics and adaptive optics studies", Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L15831, doi:10.1029/2009GL038802, (2009)
6. Moussaoui, N., Clemesha, B. R., Holzlöhner, R., Simonich, D. M., Bonaccini Calia, D., Hackenberg, W., and Batista, P. P., "Statistics of the sodium layer parameters at low geographic latitude and its impact on adaptiveoptics sodium laser guide star characteristics", Astron. & Astrophys. 511, A31 (2010)
7. Drummond, J., Novotný, S., Denman, C., Hillman, P., Telle, J., "The Sodium LGS Brightness Model over the SOR", AMOS 2007 Conference, pp. E67 (2007)
8. Xiong, H., Gardner, CS., and Liu, A.Z., "Seasonal and nocturnal variations of the mesospheric sodium layer at Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico", Chin. J. of Geophys. 46, pp. 432-437 (2003)
9. Drummond, J., "2006 Summary of 50 W Fasor Sky Tests and Model Summary", Version Feb 27, 2007, internal SOR report
10. Moussaoui, N., Holzlöhner, R., Hackenberg, W. and Bonaccini Calia, D., "Dependence of sodium laser guide star photon return on the geomagnetic field", Astron. & Astrophys. 501, 793-799 (2009)