Semipassive bimorph flexible mirrors for atmospheric adaptive optics applications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3064-3073

  Kudryashov, Alexis V ^a,c   Shmalhausen, Victor I ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimorph mirror; Response function; Turbulent atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100411     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601044     Document Type: Article

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