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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
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  • paper CWO6

High-Power Solid-State Sodium Laser Guidestar for the Gemini North Observatory

Allen J. Tracy, Allen K. Hankla, Camilo A. Lopez, David Sadighi, Nathan Rogers, Iain T. McKinnie, and Céline d’Orgeville

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Abstract

We report on development of the first commercial solid-state sodium laser guidestar (LGS): a critical step towards a robust turn-key LGS that can be upgraded for different observatories and for multi-conjugate adaptive optics and future extra-large telescopes.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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