Abstract
We report on development of the first commercial solid-state sodium laser guidestar (LGS): a critical step towards a robust turn-key LGS that can be upgraded for different observatories and for multi-conjugate adaptive optics and future extra-large telescopes.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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