Preliminary measurements of residual tip-tilt motion and strehl ratios for laser guide star compensation at lick observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4494, Issue , 2002, Pages 317-324

  Christou, Julian C ^a   Gavel, Don ^b   Patience, Jenny ^b   Gates, Elinore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Astronomy; Laser guide stars; Strehl ratio; Tip tilt motion

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER OPTICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

LASER GUIDE STAR; LONG EXPOSURE IMAGING; RESIDUAL TIP-TILT MOTION; SODIUM LASER GUIDE STAR; STREHL RATIOS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036396558     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454805     Document Type: Article

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