High-Resolution Lidar Observations of Mesospheric Sodium and Implications for Adaptive Optics

Paul Hickson; Thomas Pfrommer

doi:10.1364/AOPT.2009.AOTuA2

Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
paper AOTuA2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/AOPT.2009.AOTuA2

High-Resolution Lidar Observations of Mesospheric Sodium and Implications for Adaptive Optics

Paul Hickson and Thomas Pfrommer

Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications 2009

San Jose, California United States
13–15 October 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55752-878-0

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P. Hickson and T. Pfrommer, "High-Resolution Lidar Observations of Mesospheric Sodium and Implications for Adaptive Optics," in Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009), paper AOTuA2.

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Abstract

We describe new observations of sodium density variability obtained with a high-resolution lidar system. These show significant mean altitude variations extending to frequencies above 1 Hz with a near-Kolmogorov spectrum.

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