Atmospheric turbulence with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 1092-1099

  Schöck, Matthias ^a   Spillar, Earl J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Kolmogorov statistics; Remote sensing; Taylor's frozen flow hypothesis; Wavefront sensors; Wind sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONTS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

ADAPTIVE-OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; FRIED'S PARAMETERS; KOLMOGOROV STATISTICS; KOLMOGOROV THEORIES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; TAYLOR'S FROZEN FLOW HYPOTHESIS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS; WIND SENSING; WIND SPEED; TAYLOR FROZEN FLOW HYPOTHESIS; WAVEFRONT SENSOR;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032255129     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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