Press Releases from TOPTICA Photonics (1 total)
“First Light” for novel Laser Guide Star Technology
A novel approach to laser guide star technology, developed by TOPTICA jointly with ESO and the Canadian company MPB Communications has had its “first light” at the Public Observatory in Ottobeuren, Germany. The laser system generates a narrow-band 20 Watt cw beam at 589 nm and is designed to resonantly excite the sodium atoms in the Earths mesosphere at 90 km distance from the ground. In the future, this “guide…
