ATLAS: Laser Focus

  • Released Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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Laser Focus: Timing

Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how the ATLAS transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice.

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Music: "Electric Works" by Philippe Lhommet, Koka Media; "From Source to Sea" by Christophe Lebled, Pierre Jacquot, Koka Media.

Laser Focus: The Receiver

Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans explains how the photons that bounce back from Earth are received and filtered by the ATLAS telescope.

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Laser Focus: The Transmitter

Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans illustrates how the laser is transmitted from the ATLAS instrument on the ICESat-2 spacecraft.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 7, 2015.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:19 AM EST.

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  • ATLAS: Laser Focus (ID: 2015004)
    Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 4:00AM