Photon counting CCDs as wavefront sensors for A.O.

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 312-316

  Foppiani, I ^a   Baffa, C ^b   Biliotti, V ^b   Bregoli, G ^c   Cosentino, G ^a   Giani, E ^b   Esposito, S ^b   Marano, B ^a   Salinari, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; CCD detectors; L3CCD; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 0038060685     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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