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  • Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper AOThB3P
  • •https://doi.org/10.1364/AOPT.2009.AOThB3P

Optimization of cw and pulsed sodium guide star lasers

Ronald Holzlöhner, Simon M. Rochester, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dmitry Budker, James M. Higbie, and Wolfgang Hackenberg

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Abstract

The efficiency of continuous-wave (cw) sodium LGS in terms of return flux per watt of laser power depends strongly on the laser spectrum, polarization, and spot size. Using pulsed lasers adds another level of complexity. We present the results of extensive Bloch equation numerical simulations, both for cw and for various pulsed laser formats and applications.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

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