To the University of California astronomer, self-promotion is ineffective. She always behaves professionally, even being careful in the way she speaks. Her passion is reserved for laser technology research. The green laser pointer is a key part of telescope adaptive optics.
Without adaptive optics, stars and galaxies seen by high magnification mirrors will appear to jump, distort, and become blurred. On the contrary, with this system, the stars and galaxies seen will remain stable and clear, so that the clarity obtained by ground-based telescopes is generally comparable to or even better than that of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
This capability enables the current green laser pointer telescope to carry out high-resolution research on a range of objects, from the moon outside the solar system to the star in the center of the galaxy. Now, it is helping to build a telescope with a diameter of 20 to 40 meters and a focusing capacity of 16 times that of any current telescope.