CONICA design, performance and final laboratory tests

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 425-436

  Hartung, Markus ^a   Lenzen, Rainer ^a   Hofmann, Reiner ^b   Böhm, Armin ^a   Brandner, Wolfgang ^c   Finger, Gert ^c   Fusco, Thierry ^d   Lacombe, François ^d   Laun, Werner ^a   Granier, Philippe ^d,e   Storz, Clemens ^a   Wagner, Karl ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d ONERA   (France)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

ALADDIN; NAOS CONICA; VLT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; INFRARED DEVICES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0038184205     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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