Atmospheric tip/tilt compensation for laser beam tracking with amateur telescopes

Ivo Buske; Wolfgang Riede

doi:10.1117/12.830351

25 September 2009 Atmospheric tip/tilt compensation for laser beam tracking with amateur telescopes

Ivo Buske, Wolfgang Riede

Proceedings Volume 7483, Technologies for Optical Countermeasures VI; 74830S (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830351
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2009, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

We present a rugged and reliable real-time beam stabilization system which is adapted on a mobile 10" amateur Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) to demonstrate the functionality on different ground locations. Recently, the tip/tilt system was tested in horizontal direction on a 130 m free space propagation range. Tip/tilt compensation with a rootmean- squared accuracy better than 0.5 μrad has been confirmed. All system characteristics were measured in relation to metrological conditions and turbulence strength.

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Ivo Buske and Wolfgang Riede "Atmospheric tip/tilt compensation for laser beam tracking with amateur telescopes", Proc. SPIE 7483, Technologies for Optical Countermeasures VI, 74830S (25 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830351

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