Abstract
The Large Binocular Telescope is adding a constellation of laser guide stars to supplement the first-light natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) system. In Phase I, we rely on Rayleigh beacons to implement ground-layer AO over a 4 arcminute field. An upgrade in Phase II will see the addition of sodium lasers to provide diffraction-limited operation with wide sky coverage.
© 2009 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Yutaka Hayano, Hideki Takami, Shin Oya, Masayuki Hattori, Yoshihiko Saito, Makoto Watanabe, Yosuke Minowa, Sebastian Egner, Olivier Guyon, Meguru Ito, Vincent Garrel, Stephen Colley, Matthew Dinkins, Golota Taras, Tomio Kurakami, Yoshitake Nabeshima, Norihito Saito, Satoshi Wada, Takatoshi Shibuya, and Masanori Iye
JWA22 Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications (NLO) 2009
Christian Schwab, Andreas Quirrenbach, Wolfgang Gässler, and Diethard Peter
AOThA6P Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO) 2009
M. Lloyd-Hart, J. R. P. Angel, C. Baranec, T. Stalcup, N. M. Milton, M. Snyder, and N. Putnam
AThA4 Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO) 2005