Does the outer scale help adaptive optics or is Kolmogorov gentler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 1100-1108

  Marchetti, Enrico ^a   Bonaccini, Domenico ^b  

^a FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Laser guide stars; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; STARS; ASTRONOMY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL OPTICS; WAVEFRONTS;

ANISOPLANATISM; KOLMOGOROV; LASER GUIDE STARS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OFF-AXIS; OUTER SCALE; TURBULENT WAVEFRONTS; VON KARMAN; ZERNIKE MODES; ANISOPLANATISM EFFECT; LASER GUIDE STAR;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0032266957     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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