Performances and results on the sky of the NAOS visible wavefront sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 250-258

  Feautrier, Philippe ^a   Rousset, Gérard ^b   Dorn, Reinhold J ^c   Cavadore, Cyril ^c   Charton, Julien ^a   Cumani, Claudio ^c   Fusco, Thierry ^b   Hubin, Norbert ^c   Kern, Pierre ^a   Lizon, Jean Louis ^c   Magnard, Yves ^a   Puget, Pascal ^a   Rabaud, Didier ^b   Rabou, Patrick ^a   Stadler, Eric ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive optical system; Camera; CCD; Cryostat; Low noise; Micro lens; Strehl Ratio; Wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CRYOSTATS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037936862     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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