Adaptive optics system for the new Swedish solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 370-380

  Scharmer, Göran B ^a   Dettori, Peter ^a   Löfdahl, Mats G ^a   Shand, Mark ^b  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Optics; Telescopes; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PERFORMANCE;

BIMORPH MODAL MIRRORS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED RESOLUTION; KARHUNEN-LOEVE MODES; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SOLAR TELESCOPE; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038323948     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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