Overview of the ABL-firepond active-tracking and compensation facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3381, Issue , 1998, Pages 14-22

  Higgs, Charles ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MILITARY ENGINEERING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS COMPENSATION; AIRBORNE LASER;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 0038185228     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.323941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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