Rayleigh guide star AO demonstrator for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope

Bibcode
2003SPIE.4839..516C
DOI
10.1117/12.459230
Clark, Paul; Bissonauth, Nirmal; O'Byrne, John W.; Dunlop, Colin N.; Gregory, Thomas; Morris, Timothy J.; Myers, Richard M.; Saunter, Christopher D.; Wilson, Richard W.
Bibliographical reference

Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 516-523 (2003).

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2003
Number of authors
9
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
An experimental Adaptive Optics system utilizing a low-altitude Rayleigh Laser Guide Star is presented. The current status of the project is described together with plans for future work, with the ultimate goal of providing demonstration Rayleigh LGS AO science on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The implementation of the demonstration system is described in detail as are the technical challenges encountered during the development of the current shared-launch based system. Other papers in this conference describe a proposal for a facility class LGS system for the WHT and the performance of the observatory's NAOMI adaptive optics system.
Type
Non-refereed

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