Adaptive optics with a laser guide star - The ALFA system

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Jan 2001

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Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #205, held 15-18 August 2000 at

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All 8-metre class telescopes will be equipped with adaptive optics system in order to reach their highest angular resolutions. With the additional requirement for maximal sky coverage comes the mandatory use of a laser g star. ALFA is an adaptive optics system using a sodium laser guide star, is installed on the 3.5-m telescope at Calar Alto observatory. It has shown that it is possible to reach Strehl ratios better than 20% in the K-band. In this contribution we describe t design of the system, the observational trade-off necessary to use a lase star, and the performance that might be expected.

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