Design considerations for a novel phase-contrast adaptive-optic wavefront sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4494, Issue , 2002, Pages 363-370

  Bloemhof, E E ^a   Westphal, J A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONTS;

BIMORPH MIRRORS; FOCAL PLANE FILTER; NATURAL GUIDE STARS; WAVEFRONT SENSOR;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036398084     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454812     Document Type: Article

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