Theoretical Analysis of a Rayleigh-Raman Polychromatic Laser Guide Star

Lennon Orion Reinhart; Michael Hart; Yushi Kaneda

doi:10.1364/PCAOP.2019.PTu3C.3

Imaging and Applied Optics 2019 (COSI, IS, MATH, pcAOP)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019),
paper PTu3C.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/PCAOP.2019.PTu3C.3

Theoretical Analysis of a Rayleigh-Raman Polychromatic Laser Guide Star

Lennon Orion Reinhart, Michael Hart, and Yushi Kaneda

Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena 2019

Munich Germany
24–27 June 2019
ISBN: 978-1-943580-63-7

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Adaptive Optics & Wavefront Sensing I (PTu3C)

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L. O. Reinhart, M. Hart, and Y. Kaneda, "Theoretical Analysis of a Rayleigh-Raman Polychromatic Laser Guide Star," in Imaging and Applied Optics 2019 (COSI, IS, MATH, pcAOP), OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019), paper PTu3C.3.

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Abstract

Laser beacons in present use for adaptive optics are insensitive to overall wavefront tilt because of unknown beam wander in the upward path. We show that tilt may be estimated with a polychromatic Rayleigh-Raman beacon.

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