PROGRAM

Wednesday, October 15
High repetition-rate systems
Georg Kirchner, AAS, Austria
Jan McGarry, NASA GSFC, USA
Session Summary
8:30 - 8:45 Development of Any Frequency Fire Rate SLR Control System
Cunbo FAN, Xue DONG, Xingwei HAN, You ZHAO		[PPT]
8:45 - 9:00 The Experiment of kHz Laser Ranging with Nanosecond Pulsesat Shanghai SLR
Zhang Zhongping, Yang Fumin, Chen Juping, Zhang Haifeng, Wu Zhibo, Qin Si, Li Pu		[ZIP]
9:00 - 9:15 NGSLR: Sharing Eye-safe Kilohertz SLR with Transponder Ranging
Jan McGarry, Thomas Zagwodzki, Tom Varghese, John Degnan, Donald Patterson, John Cheek, Christopher Clarke, Anthony Mann, Peter Dunn, Randall Ricklefs, Anthony Mallama		[PPT]
9:15 - 9:30 Transmitter Point-Ahead using Dual Risley Prisms: Theory and Experiment
John Degnan, Jan McGarry, Thomas Zagwodzki, Thomas Varghese		[PPT]
9:30 - 9:45 Impact of Receiver Deadtime on Photon-Counting  SLR and Altimetry during Daylight Operations
John Degnan		[PPT]
9:45 - 10:00 High speed Pockels cell shutter and the Herstmonceux MCP-PMT detector
Matthew Wilkinson		[ZIP]
10:00 - 10:30 Break
High repetition-rate systems (continued)
Georg Kirchner, AAS, Austria
Jan McGarry, NASA GSFC, USA
10:30 - 10:45 The New 100-Hz Laser System in Zimmerwald: Concept, installation and first experiences
W. Gurtner, E. Pop, J. Utzinger		[PPT]
10:45 - 11:00 16 years of LAGEOS-2 Spin Data: From launch to present
Daniel Kucharski, Georg Kirchner, Franz Koidl		[PPT]
11:00 - 11:15 kHz Single-Photon Ranging: A Precise Tool to Retrieve Optical Response of Satellites
Toshimichi Otsubo, Philip Gibbs and Graham M Appleby		[PPT]
11:15 - 11:30 Millimeter Accuracy from Centimeter Targets
Georg Kirchner, Daniel Kucharski, Franz Koidl		[PPT]
11:30 - 11:45 Graz kHz SLR LIDAR: First Results
Georg Kirchner, Franz Koidl, Daniel Kucharski		[PPT]
11:45 - 12:00
Posters		 Medium Resolution Event Timer and Range Gate Generator in Graz FPGA Card
Farhat Iqbal, Franz Koidl, Georg Kirchner
Development of the Electronic Circuit in High Frequency SLR Based on FPGA
Chong CHEN, Cunbo FAN, Zhenwei LI, You ZHAO
Minimization of systematic errors in satellite laser ranging with high pulse repetition rate
M.A.Sadovnikov		 [PPT]

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Lasers, Detectors, and Timers
Ivan Prochazka, CTU, Czech Republic
Yuri Artyukh, IECS, Latvia
Session Summary
12:00 - 12:15 Advances of High-precision Riga Event Timers
Yu. Artyukh, V. Bespalko, E. Boole, V. Vedin		[PPT]
12:15 - 12:30 Advances of multi kHz repetition rate picosecond laser system for satellite laser ranging
Huber Heinz, Schmidt Michael, Zoppel Sandra		[PDF]
12:30 - 13:00 Signal Processing WG meeting (room C - MAJORKA)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Lasers, Detectors, and Timers(continued)
Ivan Prochazka, CTU, Czech Republic
Yuri Artyukh, IECS, Latvia
14:00 - 14:15 Compact Event Timing and Laser Fire Control Device for One Way Laser Ranging
Jan Kodet, Ivan Prochazka		[PDF]
14:15 - 14:28 Photon counting detectors for future laser time transfer missions
Ivan Prochazka, Josef Blazej		[PPT]
14:28 - 14:40 Potentialities of common-used TDC chips for high-speed event timer design
E. Boole, V. Vedin		[PPT]
14:40 - 14:52 Progress in sub-picosecond timing system development
Ivan Prochazka, Petr Panek		[PPT]
14:52 - 15:04 Fast Switching Pockels Cell Driver for SLR Laser System
Josef Koelbl, Michael Froeschl, Adam Seedsman, Yue Gao, Murray Dawson		[PPT]
15:04 - 15:16 Narrow-band holographic filters for SLR
V.L.Moshkov 		[PPT]
15:16 - 15:28 Saturable Absorber Laser Upgrade
T. Oldham, H. Donovan, M. Blount, J. Horvath, O. Brogdon, D. McCollums		[PPT]
15:28 - 15:30
Posters		 Applications of Riga Event Timer at Shanghai SLR
Zhang Zhongping, Yang Fumin, Zhang Haifeng, Wu Zhibo, Chen Juping, Yu Artyukh		[PPT]
Software and Automation
Randy Ricklefs, CSR, USA
Session Summary
15:30 - 15:45 Automation - Recent Progress at Mt Stromlo SLR Station
Christopher Moore		[PPT]
15:45 - 16:00 New ideas in control software for LR-systems with remote assessable, autonomous process cells
Alexander Neidhardt		[PPT]
16:00 - 16:30 Break
Software and Automation
Randy Ricklefs, CSR, USA
16:30 - 16:45 SLR Data Atomatic Preprocessing
Ding Jian, Qu Feng, Wei Zhibin		[PPT]
16:45 - 17:00 SLR station Riga software upgrade
Kalvis Salminsh		[PPT]
17:00 - 17:15 On the Generation of SLR Output Files at Mt Stromlo
Christopher J. Moore		[PPT]
17:15 - 17:30 Implementing the new ILRS CRD data format
Magdalena Kuzmicz-Cieslak, Erricos C. Pavlis		[PDF]
17:30 - 17:45
Posters		 The new pointing model of telescope based on tracking data
M. Medvedsky, V.Pap 		[PPT]
18:00 - 18:30WPLTN meeting
18:30 - 19:00Missions WG meeting
19:00ILRS Governing Board Meeting