Overview of the Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Retroreflector Laser Link (CEMERLL) experiment

Details Overview of the Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Retroreflector Laser Link (CEMERLL) experiment Overview of the Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Retroreflector Laser Link (CEMERLL) experiment

Aug 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994spie.2123...66w&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 2123, p. 66-74, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies VI, G. Stephen Mecherle; Ed.

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Optics

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Adaptive optics can mitigate the turbulence-induced wavefront distortions that limit the minimum practical beam divergence in a ground-to-space optical link, and enable high intensity laser beam propagation through the atmosphere. The CEMERLL experiment will use laser guide star adaptive optics to transmit a near-diffraction-limited laser beam from the Starfire Optical Range to the Apollo lunar retroreflectors. The experiment will validate theoretical models that predict the effect of atmospheric turbulence on uncompensated and compensated laser beam propagation, and explore strategies to compensate for atmosphere-induced wavefront tilt not corrected for by laser guide star adaptive optics.

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