Phasing the mirror segments of the keck telescopes II: The narrow-band phasing algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4706-4714

  Chanan, Gary ^a   Ohara, Catherine ^a   Troy, Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MIRRORS;

KECK TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0001213594     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004706     Document Type: Article

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