Laser Guided Adaptive Optics Instrument Development

地面望远镜可以拍摄出 衍射限制，如果望远镜配备了自适应 光学系统 世界各地的天文学家团体 美国，在欧洲和中国， 光学系统 然而，如果这项技术被用于 天文学家在光学波长上的工作， 必须制造人造导航星， 信号的自适应光学系统，因为有简单的 太少的天然导航星足够明亮， 参考信号以驱动自适应镜。 根据该奖项， 研究了染料激光信号的瑞利散射。

A ground-based telescope can produce images that are nearly diffraction limited if the telescope is equipped with an adaptive optics system. Groups of astronomers around the world--in the U.S., in Europe and in China--are building and testing adaptive optics systems. However, if this technology is to be used productively by astronomers working at optical wavelengths, artificial guide stars must be created to provide the reference signal for the adaptive optics system because there are simply too few natural guide stars bright enough to provide the reference signal to drive the adaptive mirror. Under this award a method of producing artificial guide stars by Ragleigh scattering of a dye laser signal will be investigated.