Suppressing anomalous localized waffle behavior in least squares wavefront reconstructors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 972-980

  Gavel, Donald ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Waffle mode; Wavefront reconstructors

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTORS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 0037722904     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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