Comparison of curvature-based and Shack-Hartmann-based adaptive optics for the Gemini telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2856-2868

  Rigaut, François ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent L ^b   Northcott, Malcolm J ^c  

^a CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Optical systems; Telescopes; Wave front sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE GENERATOR; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0031146536     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002856     Document Type: Article

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