Wave-front reconstruction from defocused images and the testing of ground-based optical telescopes

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 2277-2287

  Roddier, Claude ^a   Roddier, Frangois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DEVICES;

CLOSED-LOOP WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; DEFOCUSED IMAGE WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTION; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; PHASE RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUE; SPHERICAL ABERRATION MEASUREMENTS; WAVE-FRONT SLOPE ERROR;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0027687193     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.10.002277     Document Type: Article

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