Results of AO simulations for ELTs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 393-403

  Conan, R ^a   Le Louarn, M ^a   Braud, J ^a   Fedrigo, E ^a   Hubin, N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Karhunen Loeve basis; Object oriented; Parallel programming; Workstation cluster

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MIRRORS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038274097     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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