The laser guide star facility for Subaru Telescope

Yutaka Hayano, Yoshihiko Saito, Meguru Ito, Norihito Saito, Mayumi Kato, Kazuyuki Akagawa, Akira Takazawa, Stephen A. Colley, Mattew C. Dinkins, Michael Eldred, Taras I. Golota, Olivier Guyon, Masayuki Hattori, Shin Oya, Makoto Watanabe, Hideki Takami, Satoshi Wada, Masanori Iye

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on the current status of developing the new laser guide star (LGS) facility for the Subaru LGS adaptive optics (AO) system. Since two major R&D items, the 4W-class sum-frequency generating laser1 and the large-area-core photonic crystal fiber,2have been successfully cleared, we are almost ready to install the LGS facility to the Subaru Telescope. Also we report the result for LGS generation in Japan.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Adaptive Optics II
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventAdvances in Adaptive Optics II - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: May 24 2006May 31 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6272 III
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherAdvances in Adaptive Optics II
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period5/24/065/31/06

Keywords

  • Adaptive optics
  • All-solid state laser
  • Laser guide star
  • Photonic crystal fiber
  • Sum-frequency generation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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