A visible-light AO system for the 4.2 m SOAR telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 673-680

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^a   Schwarz, Hugo E ^a   Terebizh, Valery ^b   Thomas, Sandrine ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DIFFRACTION; GALAXIES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TELESCOPES; VISIBILITY;

LASER GUIDE STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038398922     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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