High-power guidestar lasers are ready for next-generation AO astronomy

With its virtual elimination of the effects of atmospheric turbulence, adaptive optics (AO) has allotted leading ground-based astronomical telescopes to resolve almost as well as if they were operating in space, Some optical telescopes now being planned will be far too large to loft into space; AO w...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Laser focus world 2010-06, Vol.46 (6), p.27
Format:	Magazinearticle
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astronomy Atmospheric turbulence Design Efficiency Lasers Technological change Telescopes
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