Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Dec 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.4208o&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #42.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1324
Physics
Optics
2
Scientific paper
Significant image improvement has recently been demonstrated with a laser guide star adaptive optics system on the 3 m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory located on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California. These results represent the first ever achieved using high-order adaptive optics and a sodium-layer laser guide star. Corrected images recorded at a wavelength of 2.2 microns showed a factor of 3 increase in peak intensity and a factor of 2.4 decrease in full width at half maximum to less than 1/3 arc second. The Lick Observatory laser guide star adaptive optics system was developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The system is based on a 127-actuator continuous-surface deformable mirror, a Hartmann wavefront sensor equipped with a fast-framing low-noise CCD camera, and a pulsed solid-state-pumped dye laser tuned to the atomic sodium resonance line at 589 nm.
An Jinpeng
Avicola Kenneth
Bissinger Horst D.
Brase James M.
Friedman Herbert W.
No associations
LandOfFree
First Significant Image Improvement from the Lick Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with First Significant Image Improvement from the Lick Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and First Significant Image Improvement from the Lick Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-816562