System overview of 30 W and 55 W sodium Guide Star Laser Systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Sawruk, Nicholas ^a   Lee, Ian ^a   Jalali, Munib ^a   Prezkuta, Zachary ^a   Groff, Ken ^a   Roush, Jared ^a   Rogers, Nathan ^a   Tiemann, Bruce ^a   Hannon, Steve ^a   Alford, Joe ^a   D'Orgeville, Céline ^b   Fesquef, Vincent ^b   Oram, Richard ^c   Adkins, Sean M ^d   Grace, Kenny ^d  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c Gemini North Observatory   (United States)

^d W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; EXTENSIVE TESTING; FACTORY TESTING; GUIDE STAR LASER; KECK OBSERVATORY; LITHIUM TRIBORATE; MAXIMUM POWER; MODE-LOCKED; ND : YAG LASERS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; SUM FREQUENCY MIXING; SYSTEM DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BUILDINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LITHIUM; OBSERVATORIES; SODIUM;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 77957853872     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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