Characterization of artificial guide stars generated in the mesospheric sodium layer with a sum-frequency laser
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 11 (2), 806-812
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.11.000806
Abstract
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