Interferometric hartmann wave-front sensing for active optics at the 6.5-m conversion of the multiple mirror telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 3781-3789

  West, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POLYNOMIALS;

MULTIPLE MIRROR TELESCOPES; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 0036641701     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003781     Document Type: Article

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