The research progress of the new sodium beacon laser

ZONG Qingshuang; BIAN Qi; MA Haoda; YANG Lin; ZUO Junwei; BO Yong; PENG Qinjun

doi:10.7510/jgjs.issn.1001-3806.2020.04.002

LASER TECHNOLOGY > 2020 > 44(4): 404-410. > DOI: 10.7510/jgjs.issn.1001-3806.2020.04.002

ZONG Qingshuang, BIAN Qi, MA Haoda, YANG Lin, ZUO Junwei, BO Yong, PENG Qinjun. The research progress of the new sodium beacon laser[J]. LASER TECHNOLOGY, 2020, 44(4): 404-410. DOI: 10.7510/jgjs.issn.1001-3806.2020.04.002

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The research progress of the new sodium beacon laser

ZONG Qingshuang^1,2,3,
BIAN Qi^1,2,
MA Haoda^1,2,3,
YANG Lin^1,2,
ZUO Junwei^1,2,
BO Yong^1,2, ,,
PENG Qinjun^1,2

1.
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2.
Key Lab of Solid State Laser, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
3.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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Received Date: August 12, 2019
Revised Date: September 18, 2019
Published Date: July 24, 2020

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Adaptive optics technology was widely used in large-scale ground-based optical telescope to correct the wavefront distortion caused by atmospheric disturbance, make the telescope reach the resolution near diffraction limit, and realize the clear imag-ing of the observed object. As the beacon source of adaptive optical correction, laser sodium guide star was one of the core technologies of adaptive optical telescope. The latest research progress of the new sodium beacon laser was demonstrated, include the 589nm optical pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting semiconductor sodium guide star laser and the all solid-state laser with Dy³⁺-doped crystal as gain medium, which can directly emit 589nm laser. Due to their advantages of small size, high efficiency, high reliability, low cost and easy maintenance, these schemes are considered as the possible development direction of the new generation of sodium guide star lasers.

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