Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory

Noelia Martinez; Céline D'Orgeville; David Ashworth; Michael Copeland; Antony Galla; Doris Grosse; Sowmya Hassan Krishna; Marcus Lingham; Ian Price; Tony Travouillon; Greg Fetzer; Steve Rako; Cory Baumgarten; James Webb; Mark Blundell; Yue Gao; Andrew Gray; Ian Ritchie; Craig Smith; Yanjie Wang; Olivia Byrd; Robert Johnson

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Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory

Noelia Martinez^*, Céline D'Orgeville, David Ashworth, Michael Copeland, Antony Galla, Doris Grosse, Sowmya Hassan Krishna, Marcus Lingham, Ian Price, Tony Travouillon, Greg Fetzer, Steve Rako, Cory Baumgarten, James Webb, Mark Blundell, Yue Gao, Andrew Gray, Ian Ritchie, Craig Smith, Yanjie WangOlivia Byrd, Robert Johnson

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The Mount Stromlo LGS facility includes two laser systems: a fiber-based sum-frequency laser designed and built by EOS Space Systems in Australia, and a Semiconductor Guidestar Laser designed and built by Areté Associates in the USA under contract with the Australian National University. The Beam Transfer Optics (BTO) enable either simultaneous or separate propagation of the two lasers to create a single LGS on the sky. This paper provides an overview of the Mount Stromlo LGS facility design, integration and testing of the two sodium guidestar lasers in the laboratory and on the EOS 1.8m telescope.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adaptive Optics Systems VII
Editors	Laura Schreiber, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636835
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563374
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 14 Dec 2020 → 22 Dec 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11448
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/12/20 → 22/12/20

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Martinez, N., D'Orgeville, C., Ashworth, D., Copeland, M., Galla, A., Grosse, D., Krishna, S. H., Lingham, M., Price, I., Travouillon, T., Fetzer, G., Rako, S., Baumgarten, C., Webb, J., Blundell, M., Gao, Y., Gray, A., Ritchie, I., Smith, C., ... Johnson, R. (2020). Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory. In L. Schreiber, D. Schmidt, & E. Vernet (Eds.), Adaptive Optics Systems VII Article 114481U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11448). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563374

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Martinez, N , D'Orgeville, C, Ashworth, D, Copeland, M, Galla, A, Grosse, D, Krishna, SH, Lingham, M, Price, I, Travouillon, T, Fetzer, G, Rako, S, Baumgarten, C, Webb, J, Blundell, M, Gao, Y, Gray, A, Ritchie, I, Smith, C, Wang, Y, Byrd, O & Johnson, R 2020, Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory. in L Schreiber, D Schmidt & E Vernet (eds), Adaptive Optics Systems VII., 114481U, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11448, SPIE, Adaptive Optics Systems VII 2020, Virtual, Online, United States, 14/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563374

Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory. / Martinez, Noelia ; D'Orgeville, Céline; Ashworth, David et al.
Adaptive Optics Systems VII. ed. / Laura Schreiber; Dirk Schmidt; Elise Vernet. SPIE, 2020. 114481U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11448).

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