Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 34, Issue 4, 401002(2014)

Anisoplanatism in the Tip-Tilt Determination of the Laser Guide Star

Huang Kai1,2、*, Zhou Yu1, Chang Xiang1, Zhai Dongsheng1, and Xiong Yaoheng1
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    Traditional laser guide star (LGS) is difficult to detect the variance of atmospheric tilt because of the limitation of laser transmitter and receiver light path. An important solution is to use auxiliary telescopes to detect the LGS from the side, in order to single out the information of atmospheric tilt from the observed LGS strip. It leads to the phenomenon of anisophanatism with the increase of the length of LGS strip. The Zernike coefficient correlations between two spherical waves coming from the LGS strip are developed. From the point of correlation, the effect of the altitude of LGS, atmospherical turbulence and the caliber of the receiving telescope on the anisoplanatism of the LGS strip is analyzed. Furthermore, based on the anisoplanatism limitation of the tip-tilt determination concept, the request of field of view (FOV) of auxiliary telescope to view the sodium LGS is presented.

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    Huang Kai, Zhou Yu, Chang Xiang, Zhai Dongsheng, Xiong Yaoheng. Anisoplanatism in the Tip-Tilt Determination of the Laser Guide Star[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2014, 34(4): 401002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Atmospheric Optics and Oceanic Optics

    Received: Oct. 21, 2013

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 14, 2014

    The Author Email: Kai Huang (hklobo@ynao.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/aos201434.0401002

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