Initial concepts for CELT adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1165-1174

  Dekany, Richard ^a   Bauman, Brian ^b   Gavel, Don ^b   Troy, Mitchell ^c   Macintosh, Bruce ^b   Britton, Matthew ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes; Multiconjugate adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; SENSORS; TELESCOPES;

MULTIPLE DEFORMABLE MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037598879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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