A low cost adaptive optics system using a membrane mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 175-185

  Paterson, C ^a   Munro, I ^a   Dainty, J C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FRAME RATES; MEMBRANE MIRRORS; SPATIAL LIGHT; WAVEFRONT GENERATORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000788347     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000175     Document Type: Article

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