From the grating scale monitor to the generalized seeing monitor

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5415-5425

  Ziad, Aziz ^a   Conan, Rodolphe ^a   Tokovinin, Andrei ^b   Martin, François ^a   Borgnino, Julien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION; TELESCOPES;

GENERALIZED SEEING MONITORS (GSM);

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000031818     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005415     Document Type: Article

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