Adaptive secondary mirrors for the Large Binocular Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 721-732

  Riccardi, A ^a   Brusa, G ^a,d   Salinari, P ^a   Gallieni, D ^b   Biasi, R ^c   Andrighettoni, M ^c   Martin, H M ^d  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b ADS Int Srl   (Italy)

^c Microgate srl   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary mirrors; Wave front correctors

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BINOCULARS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SENSORS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0037737991     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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