Modeling of pulsed-laser guide stars for the Thirty Meter Telescope project
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Simon M. Rochester,* Angel Otarola, Corinne Boyer, Dmitry Budker, Brent Ellerbroek, Ronald Holzlöhner, and Lianqi Wang Rochester Scientific, LLC, 2041 Tapscott Ave., El Cerrito, California 94530, USA TMT Observatory Corporation, 1200 East California Boulevard, Mail Code 102-8, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 366 LeConte Hall MC 7300 Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching bei München, D-85748, Germany *Corresponding author: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2012