First Sodium Laser Beacon at La Palma

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Mar 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000ingn....2...15m&link_type=abstract

The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 2, p. 15-16

Physics

Optics

Laser Guide Star, Sodium Laser, Laser Beacon, Naomi.

Scientific paper

In the ING Newsletter No. 1, an ongoing project to implement an adaptive optics system on the WHT was described. Called NAOMI (Nasmyth Adaptive Optics for Multiple Instrumentation), this system will be capable of eliminating, to a large degree, the image degrading effects of atmospheric turbulence. As with any adaptive optics system, NAOMI will rely on measuring light from a relatively bright reference object, or "guide star", close to the desired target in order to make the necessary correction. One would like to be able to simply dial-up a guide star exactly where it is needed, and this is possible with the use of a "sodium laser beacon".

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