Wave-front tilt sensor with two quadrant detectors and its application to a laser beam pointing system

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2219-2223

  Toyoda, Masahiro ^a   Araki, Kenichi ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DETECTORS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITES;

QUADRANT DETECTORS (QD);

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 0037139972     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002219     Document Type: Article

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