Title :
Feasibility study of a bichromatic guidestar-coherent 2-photon bichromatic excitation of mesospheric sodium
Author :
Biegert, J. ; Diels, J.-C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Theoretical results from a full hyperfine structure density matrix computation indicate that a bichromatic sodium guidestar based on two-photon bichromatic coherent excitation should require laser powers only on the order of 10 W.
Keywords :
artificial guide stars; astronomical telescopes; hyperfine structure; light coherence; matrix algebra; mesosphere; two-photon processes; 10 W; Na; bichromatic guidestar; bichromatic sodium guidestar; coherent 2-photon bichromatic excitation; full hyperfine structure density matrix computation; laser powers; mesospheric sodium; two-photon bichromatic coherent excitation; Adaptive optics; Atmosphere; Fluorescence; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Rayleigh scattering; Resonance; Stationary state;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 2000. Technical Digest
Conference_Location :
Kaua´i-Lihue, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-646-X
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.2000.883565
