Stimulated backscattering from the stratosphere: a useful laser guide star?

Robert W. Hellwarth; Jouni P. Partanen; Nansheng Tang

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
paper CTuH6

Stimulated backscattering from the stratosphere: a useful laser guide star?

Robert W. Hellwarth, Jouni P. Partanen, and Nansheng Tang

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1999

Baltimore, Maryland United States
23–26 May 1999
ISBN: 1-55752-570-6

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R. W. Hellwarth, J. P. Partanen, and N. Tang, "Stimulated backscattering from the stratosphere: a useful laser guide star?," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, C. Chang-Hasnain, W. Knox, J. Kafka, and K. Vahala, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999), paper CTuH6.

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Abstract

Astronomers’ earth-bound telescopes can improve their resolving power through adaptive optics (AO) driven by light from a point-like source, or "guide star," above the atmospheric turbulence.

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