Facility class Rayleigh beacon AO system for the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 360-369

  Rutten, René G M ^c   Clark, Paul ^a   Myers, Richard M ^a   Wilson, Richard W ^a   Bingham, Richard G ^b   Emsellem, Eric ^c   Gregory, Thomas ^c   Humphreys, Ronald A ^a   Knapen, Johan H ^c   Moretto, Gil ^a   Morris, Simon L ^a   Talbot, Gordon ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Rayleigh Laser Guide Stars

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACE TELESCOPES;

LASER GUIDED STARS (LGS); WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037723083     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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