Tilt angular anisoplanatism and a full-aperture tilt-measurement technique with a laser guide star

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 6097-6108

  Belen’kii, Mikhail S ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TREX ENTERPRISES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

STAR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037829510     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006097     Document Type: Article

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