On sky test of the pyramid wavefront sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 869-877

  Ghedina, A ^a,f   Cecconi, M ^a   Ragazzoni, R ^b   Farinato, J ^b   Baruffolo, A ^c   Crimi, G ^d   Diolaiti, E ^c   Esposito, S ^b   Fini, L ^b   Ghigo, M ^d   Marchetti, E ^e   Niero, T ^c   Puglisi, A ^b  

^a FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Astronomical Observatory of Merate   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Limiting magnitude; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038398842     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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