Layer-oriented wavefront sensor for MAD: Status and progress

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 344-353

  Viard, Elise Vernet ^a   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^b   Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^c   Baruffolo, Andrea ^e   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^d   Farinato, Jacopo ^a   Fedrigo, Enrico ^e   Marchetti, Enrico ^e   Falomo, Renato ^e   Esposito, Simone ^a   Carbillet, Marcel ^a   Vérinaud, Christophe ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Layer Oriented; Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics; WaveFront Sensor

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

STARS; WVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038060687     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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