Including outer scale effects in zonal adaptive optics calculations

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 36, 1997, Pages 9456-9467

  Ellerbroek, Brent L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Millin transforms; Turbulence outer scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000444268     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.009456     Document Type: Article

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