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A sodium laser guide star facility for the ANU/EOS space debris tracking adaptive optics demonstrator

Author(s) -

Céline d’Orgeville,

Francis Bennet,

Mark Blundell,

Rod Brister,

Amy Chan,

Murray Dawson,

Yue Gao,

Nicolas Paulin,

Ian Price,

François Rigaut,

I. Ritchie,

Matthew J. Sellars,

C. H. Smith,

Kristina Uhlendorf,

Yanjie Wang

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.2055050

Subject(s) - adaptive optics , space debris , laser , laser guide star , guide star , debris , optics , tracking (education) , free space optical communication , remote sensing , aerospace engineering , physics , environmental science , computer science , engineering , meteorology , geology , psychology , pedagogy

The Australian National University and EOS Space Systems have teamed up to equip the EOS laser space debris tracking station on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, Australia, with sodium Laser Guide Star (LGS) Adaptive Optics (AO). The AO system is used to correct for laser beam degradation caused by the atmospheric turbulence on the upward infrared laser pulse used to illuminate space debris. As a result, the AO-equipped laser tracking station can track smaller and more distant debris. This paper presents the joint ANU/EOS AO Demonstrator LGS facility requirements, architecture, and performance at the time of the conference.

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