PYRAMIR: A near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for the Calar Alto Adaptive Optics System

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 280-287

  Costa, Joana Buechler ^a   Hippler, Stefan ^a   Feldt, Markus ^a   Esposito, Simone ^b   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^a,b   Bizenberger, Peter ^a   Puga, Elena ^a   Henning, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infrared wavefront sensing; Pyramid wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038060710     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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