Laser enhancements for Lunar Laser Ranging at 532 nm

This article exposes how we improved (by more than a factor of four) the green Lunar Laser Ranging instrumental sensitivity of the French telemetric station of the “Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur” in 2012. The primary reason for this success is the doubling of the pulse energy of our green Nd:YAG la...

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Main Authors: G. Martinot-Lagarde, M. Aimar, D. Albanèse, C. Courde, P. Exertier, A. Fienga, H. Mariey, G. Métris, R. Rigard-Cerison, E. Samain, J.-M. Torre, H. Viot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Results in Physics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379716300304