Towards 1st light of the 6.5 m MMT adaptive optics system with deformable secondary mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 155-163

  Wildi, F ^a   Brusa, G ^a   Riccardi, A ^b   Lloyd Hart, M ^a   Martin, H M ^a   Close, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; INFRARED RADIATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS (DM);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038060721     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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