Laser-sodium interaction for the polychromatic laser guide star project

Veronique Bellanger; Alain Denis Petit

doi:10.1117/12.454412

29 January 2002 Laser-sodium interaction for the polychromatic laser guide star project

Proceedings Volume 4538, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems IV; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.454412
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2001, Toulouse, France

Abstract

We developed a code aimed at determining the laser parameters leading to the maximum return flux of photons at 0.33 micrometers for a polychromatic sodium Laser Guide Star. This software relies upon a full 48-level collisionless and magnetic-field-free density-matrix description of the hyperfine structure of Na and includes Doppler broadening and Zeeman degeneracy. Experimental validation of BEACON was conducted on the SILVA facilities and will also be discussed in this paper.

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Veronique Bellanger and Alain Denis Petit "Laser-sodium interaction for the polychromatic laser guide star project", Proc. SPIE 4538, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems IV, (29 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.454412

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