| Date: | 2006-09-06 09:49:00 | |
| Sender: | Georg Kirchner and Graham Appleby <Graham Appleby <GAPP@nerc.ac.uk>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1486: KHz session during 15th LR Workshop in Canberra | |
| Author: | Georg Kirchner and Graham Appleby | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2006-09-06 09:49:00 UTC Message No. 1486 ******************************************************************************** Author: Georg Kirchner and Graham Appleby Subject: KHz session during 15th LR Workshop in Canberra Colleagues. We are organizing the ”KiloHertz” session during the 15th ILRS International Laser Workshop in Canberra, scheduled for 16:00 to 17:30 on Tuesday, October 17, 2006. We consider that one of the important keys to ´extending the range´ is to increase the laser repetition rate from the traditional few Hz towards kHz rates. High-rate SLR has many advantages and new applications, including increased normal point precision, rapid target acquisition, target structure ´probing´ leading to, for example, attitude determination, ability to work with reduced peak energies and with very short pulse lengths and ranging to transponders on remote spacecraft. A further spin-off advantage from developing a kHz capability is the need to upgrade time-of-flight measurement sub-systems to those based on an accurate event-timer, with corresponding improvement in measurement linearity. KHz work is underway at Graz, is being tested within the SLR2000 system and is at the development stage at Herstmonceux. Further, we suspect that other groups and analysts will be interested in getting involved with this emerging technology and its exciting possibilities for new and more accurate scientific applications. We invite all participants to the workshop to consider contributing to this session by talking about their plans, experiences and ideas for high-rate laser ranging. Please email us with your plans and abstracts. Regards, Georg and Graham kirchner@flubpc04.tu-graz.ac.at gapp@nerc.ac.uk -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. From: ”Graham Appleby” ******************************************************************************** |