Laser guide star simulations for 8-m class telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 371-382

  Delplancke, Francoise ^a   Carbillet, Marcel ^b   Hubin, Norbert N ^a   Esposito, Simone ^b   Rigaut, Francois J ^a   Marchetti, Enrico ^c   Riccardi, Armando ^b   Vernet Viard, Élise ^a   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^d   Le Louarn, Miska ^a   Fini, Luca ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric perturbations; Atmospheric tomography; Cone effect; Laser guide star; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; TELESCOPES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY; CONE EFFECT; LASER GUIDE STAR; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

LASERS;

EID: 0009479969     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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