Abstract
A fully-automated, facility-class, 50W diffraction-limited, single-frequency, cw 589-nm guidestar excitation source has produced radiance returns as high as 7000 photons/cm2/s. Laser design, sodium guidestar characteristics, and progress of AO implementation and performance will be presented.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
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