Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0453639

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0453639

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A Laser Guide Star using a High Power, Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillators. We will develop a novel high power source of 589nm coherent (laser) light to be used to create a laser guide star by exciting sodium atoms in the earth's upper atmosphere (the mesosphere). This is needed to determine the distortion caused by the atmosphere on an optical beam propagating through it and generate the information needed to correct those distortions using an adaptive optics telescope. This project focuses on the development of a novel high power 589nm source based on a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Communications Technologies | Optical And Photonic Systems | Quantum Optics And Lasers

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Scientific instrumentation |

Other Keywords

Communications Technologies | Optical And Photonic Systems | Quantum Optics And Lasers | Scientific instrumentation

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