Laboratory characterization of a "Foucault-like" wavefront sensor for adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 941-951

  Riccardi, Armando ^a   Bindi, N ^b   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^c   Esposito, Simone ^a   Stefanini, Paolo ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS; INTERFEROMETERS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; CURVATURE SENSORS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MEASURED SIGNALS; ON THE FLIES; OPTICS APPLICATIONS; SHACK-HARTMANN SENSORS; SPATIAL SAMPLINGS; WAVE FRONT MEASUREMENTS; WAVE-FRONT ABERRATIONS; WAVE-FRONT SENSORS; WAVEFRONT SENSING; FOUCAULT LIKE WAVEFRONT SENSOR; WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032268994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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