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; Matthew C. Dinkins; Michael Eldred; Taras I. Golota; Olivier Guyon; Masayuki Hattori; Shin Oya; Makoto Watanabe; Hideki Takami; Satoshi Wada; Masanori Iye

doi:10.1117/12.672583

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28 June 2006 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, Matthew 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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Proceedings Volume 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II; 627247 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672583
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

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 fiber², have 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.

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Yutaka Hayano, Yoshihiko Saito, Meguru Ito, Norihito Saito, Mayumi Kato, Kazuyuki Akagawa, Akira Takazawa, Stephen A. Colley, Matthew C. Dinkins, Michael Eldred, Taras I. Golota, Olivier Guyon, Masayuki Hattori, Shin Oya, Makoto Watanabe, Hideki Takami, Satoshi Wada, and Masanori Iye "The laser guide star facility for Subaru Telescope", Proc. SPIE 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II, 627247 (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672583

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